Sex, lies and Twitter
Last week we got a new follower in Twitter, Alena Edwards: No tweets so far, the only information about “her” is the message in her profile, where she’s looking for funny guys and gives us a link. Probably it is a spammer, but instead of tweeting links just put the spam link in the profile [...]
Twitter used for Rogueware Distribution
Cyber criminals are using social media more frequently to distribute their malicious creations. Pft! As if Blackhat SEO, fake advertisements, and hacked websites weren’t enough?! Today we’ll take a look at a Rogueware campaign using Twitter for distribution. Several fake profiles (and compromised ones too) started tweeting “a very good antivirus” followed by a shortened [...]
Dont Get Caught by the Grinch on Twitter
Last year we documented the very first trending topic attack on Twitter. The attack is similar to a Blackhat SEO campaign, where criminals leverage the many hot topics discussed on the Internet in order to position their malware campaigns in highly visible places on Twitter. Earlier today we noticed over 300 Twitter accounts targeting various [...]
Twitter used to distribute malware
A new malware has started to spread via the social network Twitter. The message that is being used is: haha this is the funniest video ive EVER SEEN! and contains a link to a video. Cybercrooks have managed so that this message obtains good positions in Twitter section known as “Trending topicsâ€, which contains the [...]
Twitter hacked on accident by Turkish man
This morning I logged into my twitter account and noticed something strange. My Twitter follower count moved from over 5500 followers to zero instantaneously between reloads!  A Turkish man accidentally discovered a bug in Twitter after tweeting about his favorite band “Accept.” By issuing the tweet, “accept pwnz,” he was able to exploit a bug [...]
News on Mariposa
Today, Brian Krebs has published the story of 2 of the guys behind Mariposa, and how they tried to be hired by… me! Yes, that is true They really got pissed off, or at least it seems like that, as some hours later “someone” tried to pose as me in Twitter. My Twitter name is [...]
Will Twitter send you an e-mail to change your password? Yes (WTF!)
I’m really sorry. Please, forgive me, I really didn’t want to lie to you, but I did Today Olaiz has published the blog post “Since when Facebook changes your password?†and I suggested her to include the following sentence to end the article: By the way, this advice is valid for any online service: social [...]
Worms 2.0
I love my job, and one of the main reasons is that everyday I see something new or at least different. I am always surprised on how the cybercriminals are able to adapt themselves and their creations to new technologies. Today I’ll show you the worm Spybot.AKB. It spreads using P2P programs (copying itself to [...]
