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Larger-than-normal Facebook Fake Foto Attack

27

Jun

2012

Blue Coat – We’ve written a couple of times about “Facebook Fake Foto” attacks, and there’s a big one going on now…In Friday’s logs (6/23), there were almost a hundred URLs like this: edosonicafotos.com/albums.php?status=twitter&c=txjdij&gallery=google+&e=TatianaSeveral components in the URLs are evocative of “Fake Foto” attacks: words like “fotos” and “albums” to look more believable popular site […]

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LinkedIn spam leads to pump-and-dump stock scam

19

Jun

2012

We used to see a lot of pump-and-dump stock spam. Pump-and-dump stock manipulation works like this: Spammers purchase stock in companies trading at very low levels, at a cheap price The spammers artificially inflate the stock’s price by encouraging others to purchase more (often by spamming “good news” about the company to others). They then […]

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Dissecting Fake Youtube Plugin which scams Facebook users

15

Jun

2012

Introduction We have been coming across many facebook scams. This sample which is taken from one of such scams has an interesting feature in it. It checks for the location of affected victim, and based on the country where the victim is located, additional scripts are injected. The victim is redirected to many other sites […]

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