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More phishy sponsored tweets
Another day, another couple of rogue sponsored tweets [1], [2] which lead to phishing. The account pushing the first phish has…
Promoted Tweet leads to credit card phishing
There’s been a bit of an issue with promoted Tweets on Twitter in the last few days – well, one specific…
Free console games on Instagram? Not exactly…
Today we have a roundup of fake “free game” sites found on Instagram. Anyone with children in their family who can’t…
It’s a hard life for phishers
It’s difficult to say if the below defacement (spotted in the wild by the awesome Techhelplist) was intentionally targeted, or a case of…
Avoid: BofA, Wells Fargo SMS phishing
It always pays to be cautious where unsolicited text messages are concerned, as conniving phishers don’t always stick to the tried and…
Blurry previews and Facebook phishing
Here’s a Facebook phish which uses the incredibly old technique of blurring the supposed page underneath the login prompt. This is…
Soldiering on: the $5.6 million 419 scam
419 scams most commonly drop into your mailbox, but they do occasionally appear via other channels such as snail mail and…
Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter
We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past,…
Avoid this “Authorize your Twitter account” phishing scam
“What’s going on” is a very good question. The answer to that question, is that you’ve had a narrow escape from a phish…