The IRS officially kicked off the beginning of tax season in the US, and just right in time for it are the cybercriminals who are already taking advantage and using tax-related messages as a social engineering lure. We’ve recently spotted samples of spammed messages posing as a notice from Fidelity Investments, a well-known American [...]
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According to InsideFacebook, scammers are exploiting the negative sentiments surrounding Facebook’s Timeline, and are currently spamvertising bogus pages attempting to trick end users into removing their Timeline profile.More from InsideFaacebook.comWe have found 16 Timeline-related scam pages, which have collectively gained more than 71,000 likes. The largest, with nearly 19,000 likes, has been around [...] We recently found Twitter spam touting “gift cards” at the tail-end of the gift-giving season. In this run, Twitter users are lured into clicking a shortened URL with the strings “#mcdonalds gift card.” McDonald’s is a globally well-known fast food chain that, like many other establishments, do offer certificates and vouchers for patrons who [...] Attacks that use the holidays as a social engineering lure are starting to pour in as the Christmas day draws near. We recently found a page on Facebook that offers a Christmas theme on one’s profile. The page leads to a malware that comes in the form of browser plugin. Once users click the Like [...] The death of Korean leader Kim Jong Il resulted in an outpour of reactions from many people all over the world. Some people were saddened by the loss, while some were quite jubilant, saying that Kim Jong Il was “a repressive leader”. Cybercriminals, on the other hand, only had one reaction to the incident, and [...] |
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