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VIPRE Report for January 2012 Released

09
Feb
2012

Social engineering ploys doesn’t grow old-probably never will considering how effective they are no matter how simple. More often than not, online criminals doesn’t have to change their tactics to get unwary Internet users to do what they want them to do. We’ve seen familiar ploys used once more in January. Gamers, business people, and […]

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Thus spoke the Beninese: scammers hijacking Facebook chat

27
Jan
2012

Wasn’t it to my surprise when a friend’s son hit me up yesterday on Facebook chat. We don’t usually chat so I was curious as to what was going on.Although he 1st asked how I was, he quickly said he needed help to post an ad on a popular french classifieds website, leboncoin.fr. Although suspicion […]

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Trending Topic Search for “QuickTime” Leads to Phishing Site

20
Jan
2012

The WebsenseR ThreatSeekerR Network routinely monitors search results from Google trending topics. For example, if you were to search for the term “QuickTime” today, the 31st resulting entry would lead to a typosquatted URL, which pulls content from a phishing URL.Clicking this Google search entry sends you to a fake QuickTime download site. The “Download Now” button […]

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