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New fake antivirus spam hits Twitter

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Apr

2012

What’s the story? A new wave of spam has hit the popular social network Twitter which pushes advertisements for a free and “proven” antivirus. The link is malicious and the antivirus is fake. So far over 500 Twitter accounts have clocked up over 4000 tweets of this spam message and that number is rising fast […]

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YouTube and Tagged phishing leading to online pharmacy sites

19

Apr

2012

We are quite used to see well known brand names being used in phishing spam campaigns that lead to spam websites, usually online pharmacies. We’ve seen eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on. It is to us still a question why do the spammers try so hard to create phishing messages […]

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Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

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Apr

2012

There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: Click to Enlarge The link in question – fuuut(dot)tk, was being sent by both compromised accounts and spambots. Anybody visiting the link would find themselves […]

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