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Christmas themed scams on Facebook: How cyber crooks kick it up a notch during the holiday season

06

Dec

2012

From time to time the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network detects high volume surges of badness rolling across Facebook. In the past 48 hours we've seen a rapid increase of a particular scam campaign that has aggressively spread through the world's largest social networking site. With the holiday shopping season here, it appears that cyber crooks are going […]

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Instagram Spam Leads to Premium Mobile Services

14

Nov

2012

Spammers have long been leveraging social networking sites to pull off scams. Generally speaking, as the popularity of a service increases, so too do the illicit activities of scammers. It seems that the popular photo-sharing service Instagram is the latest social networking site to catch the attention of these scammers.I discovered this first-hand when I […]

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Twitter DM Lures Recipients to iPad Scam

24

Oct

2012

We have been reading reports of malware and phishing attacks by means of suspicious direct messages to get user systems infected or have user information and credentials stolen, a ploy that is fast becoming common in the Twittersphere now more than ever.One GFI Labs blog reader gave us the heads up on the latest DM currently […]

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