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Hook, line and sinker: the dangers of Location-Based Services

Oct

2012

Any new technology involves potential risks as well as potential benefits. Location-Based Services (LBS) are a case in point. Mobile apps using geolocation information are increasingly popular, offering people new ways to connect with nearby friends or find people with shared interests. Advertisers can tempt nearby customers with coupons and discounts, targeting people around the […]

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Relentless Zbot and Anti-emulations

Jul

2012

A couple of months ago, Microsoft took out some Trojan.Zbot servers across the world. The impact was short-lived. Even though for a span of about two weeks, we saw virtually no Trojan.Zbot activity, relentless Trojan.Zbot activity has resumed-with some added new social-engineering techniques as well as some new techniques to help Trojan.Zbot avoid antivirus detection.The […]

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Google Docs – a full-featured, full-service phishing facility?

Jan

2012

SophosLabs has come across two spam campaigns this weekend which rely on Google Docs as a “full-service” phishing back end. We wrote about Google Docs phishing back in June last year, when the search giant’s cloud service was used to target users of Gmail itself. These recent phishes, however, target two very different groups of […]

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