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Facebook scams kick it up a notch with Firefox/Chrome plugins

20

Dec

2011

Scams on Facebook are a daily thing. Websense® Threatseeker® Network recently detected some Facebook scams that now utilize the power of browser extensions to spread to other users' profiles. Scam pages typically utilize social engineering tricks – like enticing users with videos or offers for a free voucher, all of which lure victims to take part in the […]

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AVG Web threat weekly update – Week 50

15

Dec

2011

1. “YouTube Premium plugin” scams spreading on Facebook On the Facebook/YouTube scam front this week we came across phony posts that led to the usual survey sites, but also a new and potentially malicious YouTube Premium plugin (for Firefox/Chrome). The video offered is of an uncommonly well endowed Italian model and TV hostess, Marika Fruscio, […]

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SpyEye vs. Tracker

17

Oct

2011

It has become clear that the creator of the banking Trojan SpyEye have added plugin support to their code. In this new design, these plugins can be used by third parties to add extra functions to the core bot. The plugins are DLLs stored in the bot’s configuration file. Among the core plugins created for […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

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