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Turkey has censored more than 100 tweets in the past week

08

May

2014

More than a month after Turkey lifted its Twitter block, the countrys government is still keeping a close eye on any potentially embarrassing tweets. This week alone, Turkish courts have filed five separate takedown motions to Twitter HQ, requesting the removal of over a hundred tweets. Most of the tweets are still available to US […]

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Compromised Accounts Tweeting Links to Malware

09

Aug

2013

It is not uncommon to see social media accounts, specifically Twitter accounts, directing users to malicious sites such as the ones hosting Android.Opfake, an issue we blogged about last year. Recently, we discovered that the accounts of innocent users were being compromised to tweet these types of malicious links to their followers. Figure 1. […]

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Fake Flash Player installer spreads via Twitter and Facebook

03

Jul

2013

Recently we identified a threat which uses Twitter and Facebook to spread. The origin of the infection begins by clicking malicious tweets or Facebook posts.After clicking a tweet similar to the figure below, the user is redirected to a webpage, which asks to download and install Adobe Flash Player. The translation of the marked text […]

Category General Written by Avast! blog 0 Comments

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