Malware Poses as Rainmeter Skins on deviantART
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May 16, 2012
Recently I decided to improve my desktop with a little interactivity, and started dabbling with something called Rainmeter which displays customisable and functional skins in a variety of designs. There are entire websites where people can show off their design …
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Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers
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May 21, 2012
In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting …
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Another Round of Tumblr Dating Spam
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May 21, 2012
Remember the Tumblr dating spam? It’s still being pinged around the network, and now some lucky Tumblr users are being sent a fancy image to go with the spam text arriving in their “ask” box. This one takes an “everything …
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“We shall let you decide the fate of beef43302″
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May 21, 2012
There’s a thread over on the APB forums where a gamer complains that they had their account stolen. Well, i got my account hacked today, lost all my stuff. Whoever did had the nerve to delete my characters also BlackJackieChan, Timecop both …
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Tumblr Dating Game? No Me Gusta.
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May 18, 2012
There’s a bit of a spam run taking place on Tumblr right now, in the form of a “Tumblr Dating Game”. Click to Enlarge The spam message reads as follows: “Lol half of your followers are on tumblrdatinggame(.)com” Visiting the …
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The Diablo No-No.
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May 15, 2012
Diablo 3 is kind of a big deal, and now that I’ve referenced both Guild Wars and Ron Burgundy in the opening sentence I’m content to move on and talk about some of the spam you can look forward to …
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New Twitter Spam Run Leads to Android Rogue AV
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May 14, 2012
For some time, we’ve seen site URLs with the dot TK (.tk) extension being spammed by bogus accounts on Twitter to random users. One of our threat researchers in the AV Labs found these particular Tweets quite noteworthy: Computer …
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VIPRE® Report for April: Be Careful When Browsing Social Networking Sites
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May 9, 2012
As you may know, cybercriminals are no longer limited to Twitter and Facebook as their launchpads for spams, scams, and malware-laden site link. Tumblr and Pinterest are just some of the new social networking sites that online criminals are now …
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Mass Trollface Spam hits Tumblr
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May 9, 2012
Click to Enlarge Better late than never, although both are preferable to being at the scene of the crime in a recent case of repeated spamposts across what appears to be a large number of Tumblr accounts. It seems three Tumblrs …
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Is Your System DNS Changer-free?
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May 3, 2012
Anyone closely following the news might have come across reports regarding netizens that would be disconnected from the Internet after July 9. Media calls this the “Internet Doomsday”, and online campaigns asking Internet users to check their systems for a …
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Surveys and “Pinterest Invites” Lurk on Google Play
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May 2, 2012
Google Play, formerly known as Android Market, has been in the spotlight of late due to a number of apps researchers within the security industry have been finding and reporting. No longer does Play house just Android apps and games. …
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