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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.…
Facebook Malware Refocusing on Bank of America
The perpetrators behind the recent Classmates and Facebook Malware incident are now refocusing their attack on Bank of America customers. The new website is designed…
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…
Malware in Social Media
A few weeks ago we talked about cyber-criminals using Digg.com to spread malware. Today we see that the very same group responsible for the Digg.com…