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BET VIP Concert Ticket Scam Spreading on Twitter

19

Jul

2013

This weekend one of my favorite bands won free concert tickets on Twitter. They tweeted about the message they received from another Twitter user. Figure 1. Sarcastic tweet about free concert tickets This type of scam looked familiar from a security standpoint. Upon further investigation, we at Symantec Security Response confirmed these suspicions. Figure 2. Spam account replies […]

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I am ‘Datarmined’ to secure my Facebook posts

08

Jul

2013

I recently tried an amazing browser extension named Datarmine whose goal is to secure social network posts. It works for Facebook, Twitter etc. The idea is that your posts get encrypted, and only people with your secret key can decrypt it. Others see a fake replacement post (that you can choose). This is a post […]

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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 […]

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