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1 lost message on Facebook? Spammers pull a fast one with bogus notification

31

Aug

2011

Facebook claims to have more than 750 million active users, and many of them would have steam coming out of their ears if they thought they had lost a message from one of their Facebook friends. And that’s exactly what spammers are banking on in their latest campaign, where they have sent out messages pretending […]

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Want to be friends on Facebook? Don’t click the link!

30

Aug

2011

Hot on the heels of last week’s malicious attachment spam, we are now observing another large malicious spam campaign – this time without attachments. Like the majority of last week’s campaigns, this spam is being sent out from the Cutwail botnet. The message arrives as a fake Facebook friend invite notification. The message looks convincing, […]

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News Feeds Abused by Spammers, Again!

22

Aug

2011

In the past few weeks, we have observed an old spam tactic re-emerging. Spammers are again using news feed to populate the subject header of spam messages. This technique has been used in the past in the form of directory harvesting attacks to gather valid email addresses. However, these attacks usually lasted for only one […]

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