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Free $1000 Gift Card from Kmart – Facebook Scam

27
Aug
2014

Users on Facebook are receiving a message promoting a giveaway campaign from Kmart and offering a gift card worth $1,000 / 758; the campaign is fake and the post is from scammers trying to deceive potential victims into completing online surveys.The usual modus operandi in this type of malicious activities on social networking websites is […]

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Meetup.com offline as it refuses to pay $300 ransom to hackers

04
Mar
2014

Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber attackers who are demanding only $300 to call off a campaign that has kept the site offline for much of the past four days. A Meetup blog said that the company was a victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, a type […]

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Blackhole Exploit Kit Spam Campaign Hits Pinterest

03
Jul
2013

Social networking websites have actively been used in different malicious campaigns by cybercriminals in the past –  most of which incorporate techniques such as phishing and spam.  One of these campaigns are the Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) spam campaign, which has been plaguing Internet users for quite a while. BHEK spam campaigns are known to […]

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