Category Archives: social networks

Social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and dozens of others are being exploited actively by criminals.

Rogue AV Spam Invades Multiply, Yahoo Mail

November 10, 2010 – 4:23 pm

By Andrew Brandt While nowhere near the size of the mammoth Facebook, the social network Multiply is no slouch. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, the site is designed around not only sharing photos and videos with friends and family, but also a relatively novel concept called social shopping, which permits users of the site to [...]

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Malware Threats: What Would Churchill Do?

November 3, 2010 – 4:24 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director With Christmas fast approaching, (lest we forget the shops have kindly put all the Christmas goods out in September and early October again!) we can expect online attacks to increase as per their normal schedules, ramping up through the end of the year. With apologies to Sir Winston Churchill, [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Website owners | Comments (1)

Five Reasons You Should Always “Stop. Think. Connect.”

October 4, 2010 – 9:27 am

By Andrew Brandt Today’s the official kickoff for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the organizations supporting the event, including the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and dozens of corporate citizens including Webroot, want you to protect your computer and your personal information. So they’ve come up with a three word campaign [...]

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Workplace Social Networking: More Like Antisocial Not-working

September 14, 2010 – 2:03 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director Hardly a week goes by when the national press doesn’t carry a story about how social networks represent a threat to privacy or security, or both. These news stories aren’t wrong: Users of social networks face a raft of risks, ranging from malware attacks and identity theft, to cyberbullying, [...]

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Fake Flash Update Needs Flash to Work

September 7, 2010 – 1:23 pm

By Andrew Brandt If you live in the US, you may have played sports, barbequed, or enjoyed the last long weekend of the summer outside doing something fun outdoors. Unfortunately, that wasn’t an option here in Boulder, where a large wildfire generated a thick plume of smoke and ash. So, what’s a malware analyst to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Downloaders, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (1)

Pro-Israel Website Receives Passwords Stolen by Koobface

September 2, 2010 – 1:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt Is the team behind the Koobface worm taking a stance on the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, or is this notorious worm’s most recent, bizarre twist just a coincidence? We’ve seen Koobface hijack legitimate Web sites for more than a year, using them not only to host malicious payload files, but also to work [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

“OMG! Vuvuzela banned!” Tweets Infect Followers

June 24, 2010 – 10:26 pm

By Andrew Brandt Malware authors must have a soft spot in their hearts for the long-maligned South African vuvuzela, because once again, the  most annoying noisemaker in World Cup history is driving people to Web sites which push infections down to their computers. This time, people are retweeting the malicious links attached to a message [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Downloaders, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Facebook “Photo Album” Spam Drops Trojans

June 14, 2010 – 2:43 pm

By Andrew Brandt A spammed link campaign that spread through Facebook rapidly over the weekend delivered a malicious payload designed to take control of the Facebook account of any infected user, steal passwords, and hijack clicks in the victim’s browser. The messages appear as links sent by a friend, accompanied by the brain-damaged text “You? [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Downloaders, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (1)

Facebook Spam Leads to Viagra Vendor, Drive-by Download

May 28, 2010 – 10:08 am

By Andrew Brandt Annoying as they are, the spam emails circulating that supposedly come from Facebook don’t merely lead the recipient to one of those so-called Canadian Pharmacy pill-vendor websites. They now come with a bonus: An infection, courtesy of a malicious iframe which attempts a series of exploits against the browser, Adobe Reader, and [...]

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The Lessons of a ‘Love Bug’ Still Ring True

May 4, 2010 – 12:49 pm

By Ian Moyse A decade on from the ILOVEYOU worm, what has changed—apart from ‘we’re older and (supposedly) wiser?’ We have allowed the bad in the real world to progressively infect our online world, giving criminals a way to attack victims that is more dangerous for the victim and, coincidentally, safer for the attacker. As [...]

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