Category Archives: social networks

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

Inside a clickjacking/likejacking scam distribution platform for Facebook

January 13, 2012 – 9:10 am

by Dancho Danchev How would you convert Facebook users into slaves participating in clickjacking and likejackings scams, next to using them to spamvertise your latest event promotion message? Presumably by using one of the clickjacking/likejacking distribution platforms promising 100 slaves per day that I will profile in this post.

By ddanchev | Also posted in malware, social engineering, Uncategorized | Comments (4)

Millions of harvested emails offered for sale

January 3, 2012 – 6:44 pm

By Dancho Danchev What does it take to be a successful spammer in 2012? Access to a botnet, managed spamming appliance, spam templates that are capable of bypassing spam filters, and most importantly freshly harvested databases of valid emails from multiple email providers. Let’s profile a web-based service currently selling millions of harvested emails to [...]

By ddanchev | Also posted in spam | Comments (3)

Phishers Cast Their Nets in the Social Media Pool

June 21, 2011 – 8:23 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director It can seem at times that the only people who like change are Internet attackers. And they don’t just like it—they need it. Technology’s rapid changes give cybercriminals new attack vectors to exploit, and new ways to turn a profit out of someone else’s misfortune. Take phishing, for example. [...]

By imoyse | Also posted in Botnet activity, hijack search results, Keyloggers, phishing, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (2)

Facebook-Spamming Worm Wants Your Eyeballs

April 6, 2011 – 4:15 pm

(Update, July 11, 2011:  On May 25, 2011, we were contacted by representatives of Future Ads, LLC, the parent company of both Playsushi and Gamevance.  Future Ads informed us that they, too, had been victims of a scam perpetrated by rogue affiliates who seemed to be involved with the malicious campaigns we described in this [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (5)

Pinball Corp’s Appbundler Employs Malware-like Techniques

March 29, 2011 – 12:44 pm

By Andrew Brandt For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been noticing a curious (and increasingly prevalent) phenomenon: Some of the free Web hosts popular among those who engage in phishing are popping new types of multimedia ads over the tops of the pages they host. Not only does the victim, in this case, risk [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Downloaders, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Leave a Comment

Spammed YouTube Comments Promote Adware – Successfully

March 8, 2011 – 3:43 pm

(Update, July 11, 2011:  On May 25, 2011, we were contacted by representatives of Future Ads, LLC, the parent company of both Playsushi and Gamevance.  Future Ads informed us that they, too, had been victims of a scam perpetrated by rogue affiliates who seemed to be involved with the malicious campaigns we described in this [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, hijack search results, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (4)

10 Threats from 2010 We’d Prefer Remain History

January 1, 2011 – 3:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt With 2010 finally behind us, and an unknown number of cyberattacks likely to come in the new year, I thought I’d run down a brief list of the malicious campaigns criminals pulled off last year that I’d really dread to see anyone repeat. Now that they’re in the past, they should stay [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Backdoors, Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Firefox, Gaming threats, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (1)

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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (8)

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 imoyse | 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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Firefox, Gaming threats, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Rogue Security Products, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (19)
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