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Facebook likejacking scam via Twitter

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Jun

2013

The tweet your receive is ”we are looking for twitter members to try our brand new product at twitgiveaway,com”, mostly as a reply to one of your tweets. There is no mistake in the URL: “twitgiveaway,com”. There is indeed a comma there instead of a dot. The reason for this is that the fraudsters are […]

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RARSTONE Found In Targeted Attacks

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Jun

2013

Earlier in February we blogged about RARSTONE, a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that we discovered having some similar characteristics to PlugX, an older and more well-known RAT. In April, the same malware family used the Boston Marathon bombing as part of its social engineering bait.Since then, we’ve been looking out for further attacks using RARSTONE. We’ve seen […]

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Malware-Serving “Who’s Viewed Your Facebook Profile” Campaign Spreading Across Facebook

10

Jun

2013

A currently ongoing Facebook spreading malware-serving campaign, entices users into downloading and executing a malicious executable, pretending to be a “Who’s Viewed Your Facebook Profile” extension. In reality though, the executable, part of a campaign that’s been ongoing for several months, will steal private information from local browsers, will auto-start on Windows starup, and will […]

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