Return of the Facebook Photo Scam

It looks like the Facebook picture scam I blogged about last November is having a rerun, with a new modus operandi and some new content. Here is how it starts: a Facebook friend posts an image to your Facebook profile:

So of course you type in the URL and head on over to stealing [...]

Clickjackers Tweet

Twitter as Facebook are now considered as emerging social networking sites. No wonder that they became a worthy cybercriminal target. The recent pranks, annoying at worst but not essentially harmful to accounts or systems, continue the series of attacks on the micro-blogging and social networking site.

So Is It Twitter or Facebook? Spammers [...]

Targeted malware attacks exploiting IE7 flaw detected

Researchers at TrendMicro have detected a targeted malware attack exploiting last week’s patched critical MS09-002 vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 7.  Upon opening the spammed Microsoft office document, vulnerable users are automatically forwarded to a Chinese live exploit site which still remains active. The attack has also been confirmed by McAfee and by the ISC, [...]