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Online pharmacy spam disguised as AOL.com phishing

11

Nov

2011

Every time when I see a phishing where AOL is involved I become nostalgic. The reason for that is that the first phishing seen online was sent on an AOL newsgroup on January 2. 1996. Here is one email which looks very phishy at the first sight. All links except the “inbox” are going to […]

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Spam and YouTube: a long-term relationship

22

Sep

2011

We recently noticed a mass mailing among the general flow of spam that at first glance looked just like the usual “forum” junk mail that appears on forums and bulletin boards, and which are sent as email notifications to users of those forums. The spam message advertised pharmaceutical goods. However, the links led to YouTube […]

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BBC Sport in Rugby World Cup Twitter spam slip-up

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Sep

2011

A compromised Twitter account has resulted in the embarrassing broadcast of a spam message via the BBC’s website. More and more TV stations are encouraging both their staff and their viewers to jump onboard the social media bandwagon, and use the likes of Twitter to interact and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. But if […]

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