Spam using Twitter and Youtube
Spam is something that we see on a daily basis. Everyday thousands of unwanted e-mails arrive to our mailboxes. We have seen them in all kind of flavours. Plain text, html, instant messaging, images, pdf, even in MP3. Users are able to learn, so usually when we know that a message is spam, we don’t [...]
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, there have been several thousand tweets targeting trending topics on Twitter and the numbers continue to rise. Example Tweets: As you can see from the example tweets, the cyber criminals [...]
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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 to any Threat Researcher these days, so naturally I had to investigate it. I clicked on the section inside of the trending topics group and ironically the links in the [...]
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Crypto Challenge
Those of you who already follow me on Twitter know that every once in a while I throw together a quick, geeky puzzle for everyone to solve. After my last challenge, a few people asked me to make the next puzzle a little bit harder to solve. This meant including a few more steps and [...]
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