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Instaspam 2: Electric Boogaloo

29

Nov

2012

While death and taxes may be certainties in our lives, in the digital world-especially in social networking-one certainty is spam.I recently wrote about gift card spam targeting the popular photo-sharing application Instagram. The service now has over 100 million users and it recently surpassed Twitter with more average daily visitors (Figure 1). As the number […]

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Spam with .gov URLs

20

Oct

2012

Symantec is observing an increase in spam messages containing .gov URLs. A screenshot of a sample message is below: Traditionally, .gov URLs have been restricted to government entities. This brings up the question of how spammers are using .gov URLs in spam messages.The answer is on this webpage: 1.USA.gov is the result of a collaboration between […]

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Work-at-home Scammers Target Brazil with Spamnet

05

Oct

2012

Background: Spamnet Tracking A year or so ago, as we were talking about malnets one day, it occurred to us that there was probably a lot of similarity between the networks run by the Bad Guys to infect victims with malware, and the networks used by spammers to run their spam campaigns. In fact, we […]

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