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Month: July 2014
Fake Facebook Mails Lead to Pharma Spam
Don’t worry if you see the following attempt at panic inducement sitting in your mailbox – it may look as though…
Spammy Tumblr Apps and Stalker Hunting
It’s been a while since we saw a “Who is viewing your profile” scam spreading on Tumblr complete with spammy application…
PUPS are Persistent
I wrote about bundles in the past, having investigated complaints from a forum user that we had installed undesirable software, along his…
A Week in Security (Jul 13 – 19)
Here’s a review of last week’s posts on Malwarebytes Unpacked: Top news stories: That’s all for this week. Stay safe! Christopher…
AskMen.com compromised again
Last month, security firm Websense reported that popular website AskMen.com was compromised to serve malicious code. Today, our honeypot captured an attack…
Spammers Rice to the Occasion
The Freerice website lets visitors take part in a general knowledge quiz and donate rice for every question they answer correctly,…
Origin is Giving Away Games and Coins — Not!
Recently, we found another Origin phish that promises freebies only to leave users frustrated for not getting anything in the end and…
“Window Live Network Online Award Program” 419 Scam
Scammers have recycled pieces of an email dated back to at least 2012 in their latest quest to steal as much money…
Britain’s Got Talent – and Twitter Spam
Yesterday, an awful lot of Twitter users following some of the winners and finalists from Britain’s Got Talent may have run into…