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New Approach to the Old “Facebook Profile Viewer” Ruse

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Apr

2013

The truth about the Facebook Profile Viewer is simple: it doesn’t exist.You can check every Facebook page or app available, but you can be 100% sure that each one that says “See who viewed your profile!” or “Who’s stalking you?” is just a ruse for Facebook users to reveal their passwords or spread spam. How […]

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How Deep Discovery Protected Against The Korean MBR Wiper

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Mar

2013

We have continued to look into the MBR-wiping attacks that hit Korea earlier. We believe we now have a good picture of how the attack was conducted, why it caused so much damage, and how we were able to protect users using the threat detection capabilities found in Deep Discovery.On March 19, we saw the […]

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Andromeda Botnet Resurfaces

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Mar

2013

The Andromeda botnet – first spotted in late 2011 – has recently resurfaced. This threat arrives via a familiar means: spammed messages with malicious attachments or links to compromised websites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) code. Here is one spam message we saw recently:Figure 1. Sample spammed messageAndromeda itself is highly modular, and can incorporate […]

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