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Bogus Olympics 2012 Email Warning Blindside Users With Malware

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Apr

2012

The upcoming London Olympics is undoubtedly one of the most highly-anticipated sports event of the year. It is also a favorite social engineering ploy among cybercriminals. Just recently, we found an Olympics scam in the form of a lottery that promises a free travel package to the event. Some online crooks, however, played it differently […]

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Increase in Hit & Run Spam

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Mar

2012

During the past two weeks, Symantec has observed an increase in hit & run spam activities (also known as snowshoe spam) in its Global Intelligence Network. Hit & run spam messages have the following characteristics: Usually originates from IP ranges with neutral reputation Uses a large IP range to dilute the amount of spam sent […]

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The Pink Facebook rogue application and survey scam

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Feb

2012

There’s just no pleasing Facebook users. They complain when Facebook decides to change the look of the social network (think, Timeline), and then they want to make pointless cosmetic changes of their own – such as changing Facebook from its traditional blue to a garish pink. That’s the lure being used by some Facebook scams […]

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