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Retweet to Become Verified on Twitter? Not Likely.

01

Feb

2013

There’s currently a number of “Twitter Verified” style accounts posting to Twitter, asking users to “Retweet to become verified”, or posting up peculiar minigames along the lines of “The last person to RT this Tweet becomes verified”. It’s all rather odd, and shows no sign of slowing down. click to enlarge At this point, we’ve […]

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TumViewer and Online Income Survey Scams Hit Tumblr

27

Sep

2012

Posts masked as the fake web app “TumViewer” and “Online Income Solutions” were seen circulating on the popular blogging site Tumblr. Both offer something to Tumblr users, but in reality, they are social engineering lures meant to hook users into another run-of-the-mill survey scams.TumViewer and Online Income Solutio: Just Another Survey Scams Several Tumblr posts […]

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New Twitter Spam Run Leads to Android Rogue AV

14

May

2012

For some time, we’ve seen site URLs with the dot TK (.tk) extension being spammed by bogus accounts on Twitter to random users. One of our threat researchers in the AV Labs found these particular Tweets quite noteworthy: Computer view (click to enlarge) Smartphone view (click to enlarge) Such Tweets are equally accessible to computer […]

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