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Spammers Hone In on Google+

03

Jul

2011

Our friends at Sophos has found what we consider as, probably, the first crime ever targeting Google+: fake pharma spam. Due to the high demand of G+ invites being thrown at Google, to the point that the company actually had to cease the invitation process for the beta release of their fledgling social networking site, it […]

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Social Network Attacks Surge

30

Jun

2011

Exploiting the popularity of social networks for the purposes of distributing spam, malware, and phishing attacks is quite a common technique these days. Spam attacks via social networks grew dramatically between April and June 2011. Over this period, we monitored and analyzed social network spam attacks that used three popular social networking sites—Facebook, Twitter, and […]

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Mis-typing, pickpocketed .

13

Jun

2011

Have you ever accessed faceboook.com? At a glance, you may mistake this domain for the most popular social networking site, Facebook.com. However, with a closer look, you will definitely see the difference: “book” has been replaced by “boook“. This fake domain has been employed by hackers to fool users. Since there is a huge number […]

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