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An aquarium of blowfish on Facebook

06

Jul

2011

As is the case with every long weekend, the 4th of July weekend brought quite a lot of scams spreading through Facebook. Besides the usual click-jacking, hoaxes, and phishing attacks, one particular scam was discovered that showed the imminent evolution of this type of attack. As always, the scam commences with a bait message – […]

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Facebook Apps IFrame Flaw Used For Phishing

02

Jul

2011

Yesterday’s post made note of a spammer that has figured out a way to embed his Cost Per Action (CPA) surveys into a Facebook application at apps.facebook.com.An observant reader called Matthew wrote to inform us of a phishing attack that uses the very same technique.The phisher’s form fits seamlessly into facebook.com:Fortunately, this still appears to […]

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Visualizing Malware: Another Look at Malvertising

23

Jun

2011

[A lot of travel recently has pre-empted work on the blog. Here is a cool post from Tim in our internal team blog a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been pestering him to do another in our "visualizing malware" series… –C.L.] As we have seen before (More Malicious Ads, Visualizing Malware Networks), malvertising enables the […]

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