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Rogue Instagram and Angry Birds Space for Android Spotted

18

Apr

2012

Recently, Facebook announced its acquisition of Instagram– a popular photo-sharing smartphone app, which also released an Android version almost a week ago. It was reported that Facebook paid approximately $1 billion (?629m) in cash and stock for the said takeover.Cybercriminals, soon enough, started to take advantage of Instagram‘s popularity. We discovered a spoofed webpage containing […]

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OSX_FLASHBCK: A Backlash to Apple’s Popularity?

13

Apr

2012

The Flashback malware discovered last week is raising doubts over the security of the Mac platform. The Trojan, detected by Trend Micro as OSX_FLASHBCK.AB, continues to be a hot topic in the computing industry and it opposes Apple’s own concept that their Mac OS are threat-proof. But this attack, along with an onslaught of malware […]

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Compromised WordPress sites Drive Users to Blackhole Exploit Kit

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Mar

2012

We were alerted to reports of a mass compromise of WordPress sites that lead to CRIDEX infection. To lure users to these compromised sites, the cybercriminals behind this employed spammed messages purporting to come from known legitimate sources such Better Business Bureau and LinkedIn, just to name a few. These spam use social engineering tactics […]

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