Twitter Kit Out to Make Twitter a Spammers’ Dream

Cybercriminals leveraging social media is now basically a given, especially with users’ current dedication to social media (specifically on social networks). Actually, we’ve reported quite a few instances that prove how cybercriminals used Twitter for their operation, most especially in spamming. Twitter is, of course, fully aware of this. Twitter users have probably even [...]

KOOBFACE Spreading via Facebook DMs Again

The infamous KOOBFACE botnet is sending direct messages (DMs) on Facebook. If this sounds familiar… it should be, as this tactic was previously discussed here in the Malware Blog back in March. The hook is somewhat similar to a ZBOT attack also spotted in March. That attack claimed that someone posted pictures of the [...]

SYMBOS_FLOCK.I—Where Does It Come From?

Yesterday, we blogged about a new piece of Symbian malware, which we detected as SYMBOS_FLOCK.I. This malware targets users of older Series 60 devices. Overall, the malware itself is very simple in terms of operation. It first prompts the user to install an application called ZvirOK 5.2! whose name suggests that there have been [...]