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Visualizing the Twitter Trends Attack
Post Updated on 6/24/09 at 7:52 PM For the past few weeks, cyber criminals have been targeting Twitter users by creating thousands of messages (tweets)…
More rogueware campaigns on Twitter…
Again cybercriminals are using the Trending Topics to spread rogueware. In this case the Trending Topic is David Carradine: When you click on the…
Rogueware campaign on Twitter continues…
The Twitter Trends based attack we blogged about yesterday has expanded from just one trend to nearly all of them! Over the past 24 hours,…
Rogueware Campaigns blending in with Twitter Trends
Update: 6/4/09 – Rogueware campaign on Twitter continues… "PhishTube Broadcast" became a trending topic on Twitter today. The word “tube” is a big red flag…
YouTube riddled with comments leading to Malware
A few months ago, we talked about YouTube's Annotations feature being used as a tool for Cyber Criminals to help spread their malicious Rogueware campaigns.…
Malware Impersonates Classmates and Facebook Websites to Deliver Password Stealing Trojan
Websites designed to look like Classmates.com and Facebook are currently being used to distribute a password stealing Trojan, which we detect as Trj/Spyforms.BZ. Some of…
How to detect a spammer in Twitter
This is a visual test to distinguish a real Twitter account from a spammer’s account. It’s very easy. If the account has been recently created…