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Facebook used to make scams look legitimate

22

Dec

2011

One of the recurring web spam themes I saw in 2011, was the “Work from home and make $X,000/month” scam. In some variations of the well-known and well-used scam, websites are set up to look like a well-established newspaper with a front-page (fake) article about making a lot of money from home. Here are a […]

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Holiday phishing season is starting

01

Dec

2011

As in previous years, we are used to see a peak in the phishing attacks starting at the beginning of December and ending in the middle of January. If beginning of December makes perfectly sense, you might have asked yourself why middle of January. Because then people send back the presents they didn’t want to […]

Category General Written by Avira - TechBlog 0 Comments

Htaccess redirection to sweepstakesandcontestsinfo dot com

14

Nov

2011

Since last week we started to see a large increase in the number of sites compromised with a .htaccess redirection to http://sweepstakesandcontestsinfo.com/nl-in.php?nnn=555. This domain has been used to distribute malware for a while (generally through javascript injections), but only in the last few days that we started to see it being done via .htaccess. This […]

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