Will you take Facebook’s candy?

November 9, 2011 – 2:50 pm

By the Webroot Threat Team It’s a creepy treat, with a serious underlying message. The latest viral website uses a horror movie format to show you just how much the average Facebook application can find out about you. TakeThisLollipop, which has already received 1.7 million ‘Likes’ on Facebook, uses the social network’s application authentication scheme [...]

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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 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Shorty Worm Spams Links, Hijacks Browsers

March 4, 2011 – 9:51 am

By Andrew Brandt & Grayson Milbourne A novel worm we’re calling Worm-IM-Shorty appears to be winding its way through Facebook and some instant messaging services, with its come-on disguised as a link to a photograph hosted elsewhere. But when recipients click the link, they receive an executable Trojan instead, dressed up with the name and [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Firefox, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

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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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 mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | 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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

This PC Will Self-Destruct in Ten Seconds

April 8, 2010 – 9:38 am

By Andrew Brandt Phishing Trojans that try to remain below the radar are still prevalent, but a number of files coming through Threat Research point to a disturbing trend: Several new variants of existing malware families are taking a scorched earth approach to infected computers, rendering the PC unbootable (just check out the batch file [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

Social Nets Put Your Privacy at Risk

March 30, 2010 – 12:01 am

By Mike Kronenberg Attention Facebook and Twitter users: You’re still at risk. Last year, our survey found that lots of people using social networking sites were taking the risk of financial loss, identity theft, and malware infection. Have things gotten any better? Well, the answer is yes but, unfortunately, not better enough — and potentially [...]

By Mike | Posted in phishing, social engineering, social networks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

New Research: IT Pros Sound Off On 2010 Security Concerns

February 17, 2010 – 12:31 pm

Research from the enterprise security experts at Webroot With the explosion of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2009, it’s no surprise cybercriminals have set their sights on these Web sites for new victims. Facebook now has over 400 million active users and Twitter has over six million — a sizeable pool of potential targets. [...]

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Massive Spam Campaign Impersonates Social Networks

February 5, 2010 – 4:25 pm

By Andrew Brandt Spammers are the source of a flood of messages that appear to originate from various social networks, including Facebook and Myspace, as well as popular sites like iTunes. The spam messages usually just contain a link, and possibly a few words. Their subject matter falls into three general categories common to most [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, social networks, spam | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)
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