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Phishers Bank on Tax Season

08

Feb

2012

With the U.S. currently in tax season, online criminals have, once again, sought to take advantage of this. Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers, spotted a phishing email posing as Intuit Inc., a company that “develops financial and tax preparation software”. They developed Quicken and TurboTax. Below is a screenshot of the said email: […]

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Valentine’s Day Scams: For the love of money

08

Feb

2012

Scam artists and cybercriminals are looking to turn romance into profit now that Valentine's Day approaches, possibly taking over your computer in the process. According to ESET researchers in Latin America, we can expect the quest for love to be leveraged as an effective social engineering ploy to enable the bad guys to infect unsuspecting […]

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Facebook Files Suit Against Clickjacking Scammer

28

Jan

2012

In a blog post yesterday, Facebook announced that they, along with the Washington State Attorney’s Office have filed lawsuits against Adscend Media, LLC. Adscend Media is an advertising network that utilized “misleading and deceptive tactics, including one known as clickjacking”. Clickjacking is a type of Facebook scam where scammers hide code on malicious websites that […]

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