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Blue Coat – We’ve written a couple of times about “Facebook Fake Foto” attacks, and there’s a big one going on now…In Friday’s logs (6/23), there were almost a hundred URLs like this:  edosonicafotos.com/albums.php?status=twitter&c=txjdij&gallery=google+&e=TatianaSeveral components in the URLs are evocative of “Fake Foto” attacks: words like “fotos” and “albums” to look more believable popular site […]

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Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a much clearer idea of how many ads the attackers were displaying and how much those ads […]

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You would think that if there had been a widespread scam on Facebook two months ago, that it wouldn’t be capable of spreading using identical wording now, wouldn’t you?Sadly, it seems the answer is “no”.Messages about a supposedly sleazy sex video of pop songstress Rihanna are being spread on Facebook right now, complete with a […]

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