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Phishing in the clouds

10

Jun

2011

Recently the security of public cloud services has been a major topic of discussion on the Internet. While service providers assure us that there’s nothing safer than the ‘cloud’, security companies have already managed to discover various kinds of threats in the cloud. In the meantime, spammers are managing to keep up and have started […]

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Spammers Claim Wikipedia for Pharma Fakes

16

May

2011

Last year, phishers targeted Wikipedia with a large number of spam emails that directed unsuspecting users to a fraudulent Wikipedia website. Currently, we are observing a new spam tactic being used, which targets the Wikipedia name for the promotion of fake pharmaceutical products. In the last couple of days, we have observed various spam email […]

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Defending SEO with Layered Protection

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May

2011

The use of search engine optimisation (SEO) in malware distribution has been discussed many times on this blog. In most cases, the attacks are used to redirect unsuspecting users to scareware (fake anti-virus) sites, where they are tricked into installing fake AV. The attacks have historically been Windows-specific, but recently we have seen the attackers […]

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