It would be easy to think that once someone has logged in successfully to Facebook—and not a phishing site—that the security threat is largely gone. However, that’s not quite the case, as we’ve seen before.
Earlier this week, however, Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson found at least two—if not more—malicious applications on Facebook. (These were the [...]
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Facebook Applications Used For Phishing
Over the past week, Koobface intensified its Twitter campaign, tweeting a variety of messages instead of the usual one message at a time spam campaign as with the text “My home video : ).”
So far, we have seen more than 40 distinct messages spammed to Twitter. Here is a sample of the new Koobface campaign.
The [...]
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Koobface Ramps Up Its Twitter Campaign
Just one week after Microsoft issued a fix for a worm hole in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), malicious hackers have started launching attacks against unpatched systems.
The attacks, first spotted by the SANS Internet Storm Center, are hitting Microsoft Windows users who have not yet applied the MS09-039 update.
[ SEE: Microsoft: Exploits likely for [...]
