Posts Tagged ‘uptick’

“Browser Crashers” Hit Japanese Users

Mar

2013

We’ve spotted an uptick in a particular type of threat hitting Twitter uses in Japan. We call this threat the “browser crasher” after what it does: it causes the browser to “hang/crash”. To do this, the user has to be lured to visit a particular site with the JavaScript code. So long as the browser […]

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Fake job domains 10/8/12

Aug

2012

A bit of an oddity here – I noticed a marked uptick in people searching for very old fake job domains that had expired. It turns out that the scammers are back (probably the Lapatasker crew), and lazily they have just re-registered their old domains. Current ones doing that rounds that you should avoid are: […]

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Spring Brings Tax-related Scams, Spams, Phish, Malware, and the IRS

Mar

2012

Spring is here and that means scam artists are thinking about income taxes and the IRS. Not that scam artists pay income taxes, they just know taxes and any mention of the IRS is a good way to get your attention, which explains a steady stream of deceptive emails targeting tax-paying Americans who now have […]

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