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Bitly Imitation Leads to Malware Download

May 18, 2015 - URL shortening services can be a marketing person’s and social media buff’s best friend. However, they can become a cause of worry for...

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USPS “Your package could not be delivered” text is a smishing scam

April 12, 2022 - A scam is doing the rounds which begins with a text from what claims to be the US Postal Service. The...

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XSS to TSS: tech support scam campaign abuses cross-site scripting vulnerability

October 21, 2020 - Tech support browser lockers continue to be one of the most common web threats. Not only are they a problem for...

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Recipe for success: tech support scammers zero in via paid search

June 25, 2019 - Tech support scammers are known for engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with defenders. Case in point, last month there were...

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Ellen DeGeneres giveaway scam spreading on social media

April 15, 2019 - Scammers are pushing multiple fake Facebook profiles of Ellen DeGeneres, popular US TV show host and producer, with the goal of...

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Hosting malicious sites on legitimate servers: How do threat actors get away with it?

January 18, 2019 - How do threat actors manage to get their sites and files hosted on legitimate providers’ servers? I have asked myself this...

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The digital entropy of death: link rot

March 20, 2018 - Hot on the heels of a grim blog about digital death comes…another blog about digital death. Except in this case, the...

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Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter

August 11, 2016 - We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past,...

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The curious case of recurring “Page disabled” Facebook scams

August 4, 2016 - Remember those fake Facebook Security pages we’ve documented earlier this year? Here’s a quick refresher if not: Recently, we noticed a...

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New Skype spam leads to Trojan download

May 5, 2016 - Today, we’ve been alerted about an ongoing spam campaign against Skype users. The majority of those affected are in India, Japan,...

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