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Instagram Spam Leads to Premium Mobile Services

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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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Obama punching a guy in the face? Something to do with face. a new Koobface

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Nov

2012

We have detected a new Twitter spam campaign that may compromise user security. Users receive a direct message on Twitter, which contains the text “Check out Obama punch a guy in the face for calling him a nigger”, and a malicious link to a fake Facebook page. If you click the link, you will be […]

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TumViewer and Online Income Survey Scams Hit Tumblr

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Sep

2012

Posts masked as the fake web app “TumViewer” and “Online Income Solutions” were seen circulating on the popular blogging site Tumblr. Both offer something to Tumblr users, but in reality, they are social engineering lures meant to hook users into another run-of-the-mill survey scams.TumViewer and Online Income Solutio: Just Another Survey Scams Several Tumblr posts […]

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