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 Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in social engineering, social networks, spam | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Friends, Followers, Fans: Be On Guard in 2010

December 30, 2009 – 10:39 am

By Mike Kronenberg Do you use a social networking site? Be prepared, because I predict in 2010 it’ll be a major target for cyber criminals. Among the threat experts here at Webroot, we’ve discussed the ROI opportunity that social networks present an enterprising hacker who strings together the personal information people choose to share on [...]

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Facebook Phishing Campaign Wants Your Passwords

November 2, 2009 – 1:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yet another new phishing campaign targeting users of Facebook struck over the Halloween holiday weekend. After scammers began filling inboxes last week with bogus “Facebook update” attachments, this weekend we saw a different group at work. Employing URLs with random domain names registered under the .eu top-level domain, the campaign looks similar to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in social engineering, social networks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , | Comments (11)

Koobface: Not Just for Facebook, Anymore

August 14, 2009 – 11:54 am

By Andrew Brandt The latest generation of Koobface targets its particularly effective brand of social engineering at more social networks than ever. As the worm has evolved, we’ve seen it grow to encompass a pantheon of services, targeting more than just the widely publicized Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but a host of other Web sites [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (12)

Facebook Miscreants Dealt a Temporary Smackdown

May 15, 2009 – 9:06 am

By Andrew Brandt After more than a week of harassment by goofballs spamming links, Facebook users can breathe a sigh of relief that, for now, at least one source of trouble has been eradicated. Last week’s worm-like spread of links to the mygener.im domain, and this week’s use of the ponbon.im and hunro.im domains to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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