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Message of Safety for Ladies on Facebook is a Hoax
I encountered this “new way for rapists to lure girls” story years ago from another social networking site. I’m quite sad yet generally not surprised that it has already made its way to Facebook. click to enlarge The message goes: … »
Kelihos Botnet Gaining Momentum
Last September of 2011, Microsoft and an anti-malware security company had joined forces to take down Kelihos, a botnet capable of sending out billions of spam in a day. These spam are related to pornography, Viagra, and fake pharmaceutical companies … »
Need Proof?
I saw a thread over on Reddit regarding the “Funniest scam I’ve ever seen”. Unfortunately the main linked screenshot of the scam site is now offline, but someone provided the URL of the website in the comments so I thought … »
Tumblr Staff Blog Fakeouts Continue
Hot on the heels of the “free Starbucks giftcards” nonsense from last week comes a number of Tumblr accounts compromised and serving up “Free Southwest Airlines tickets” posts. Click to Enlarge The Tumblr user is promised “2 free Southwest tickets” … »
Criminals Serve Bogus Browser Updates
Matthew, one of our malware researchers analyzed a Web threat that recently came to our attention thanks to a report from one of our VIPRE clients. Vkernel(dot)org (not to be mistaken with vkernel.com) is found to be a scam launchpad … »
Fake Tumblr Staff Blog Leads to Starbucks Gift Cards
We’re seeing a lot of freshly compromised Tumblr accounts, all of which are posting up an image file located here that claims to be a “Tumblr Staff Blog” (it isn’t), proclaiming the joys of “Free $50 Starbucks gift cards”. Here’s an … »
Megaup…d’oh.
You’re probably aware that Megaupload has wandered into what can only be described as a bit of a pickle, assuming said pickle is roughly the size of a Vogon Constructor Fleet. Given that lots of people probably want to take … »
The Microsoft-Kelihos Tango Continues
Microsoft is going all out on hammering the last nail on Kelihos’s coffin. The takedown that took place 4 months ago is just the beginning. The software giant filed a complaint on Monday, January 23, against Andrey N. Sabelnikov for … »
Halo 4 Beta Invites? Nope.
There have been warnings over the last few days regarding a Halo 4 Beta invite scam. Information was pretty thin on the ground, however, so I decided to take a look – especially as there were reports of phishing. Here’s … »
BBB Scam Returns
You may well have read about the BBB phish / exploit emails doing the rounds last week. It’s worth noting that these are still in circulation – we’ve seen five of these in the last two days linking to exploits … »
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