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Threats Get Trickier with Versatility and Social Engineering

14

Sep

2012

Cybercriminals intending to take your data find various ways through social engineering. For example, in our investigation of what seemed to be a run-of-the mill spam run leading to a pharma site, we’ve uncovered the same points we have raised in our eguide, How Social Engineering Works. The spam run starts as an email notification […]

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Scam Disguised As WhatsApp for Facebook

22

Aug

2012

We were alerted to a scam that is currently found on Facebook. It’s worth noting that this scam uses the mobile messaging app WhatsApp. Users may encounter this scam via Facebook notification requests or contacts’ “Likes”. The scam takes off like a typical scam: users are redirected to a fake WhatsApp Facebook page that requires […]

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London Olympics Search Results Lead to Objectionable Sites

10

Aug

2012

We’ve previously blogged about Olympic ticket scams, phishing, malware designed to propagate through social networking, and other Olympic security concerns. We also know that hackers take advantage of people searching for breaking news and trending topics about the Olympics through various SEO poisoning techniques. When Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvilii died in a tragic training accident just before the Vancouver Olympics in […]

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