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“Check who is visiting your profile” scan on Russian social network Vkontakte

08
Mar
2012

Vkontakte is the Russian equivalent of Facebook and has been criticized for being a direct “clone”. Well, scammers are “cloning” the most popular Facebook scams and porting them to this Russian platform as well. One recurring scam, used to trick people into giving up credentials to their Facebook account, or executing a cross-site scripting attack […]

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Trojanized Flash Player haunts Vkontakte users

12
May
2011

A Russian site is urging users to upgrade their security software:xtot.ruIn English:The file is hosted on that same site at xtot.ru/install_flash_player.exeUpon installing this ‘Flash Player update’ the following installation screens appear:Although it looks like the real thing, it is not. Hackers took the original file and added their own malicious code to it.This is not that obvious though […]

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