We’ve seen a number of phishing attempts targeting users of Facebook, and just like the campaign we’ve seen in February last year, the…
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WhatsApp Elegant Gold Hits the Digital Catwalk
Late last year, a scam targeted users of WhatsApp called “Whatsapp Gold” was simply a way of extracting phone numbers and potentially charging…
Fake Twitter Verification Profile leads to Phishing, Credit Card Theft
The lure of having your Twitter account verified is too much for some people to resist, and sure enough we’ve come…
A New Batch of Voice Comms Stealers…
Voice Comms have slowly but surely become a popular target of scams in the past [1], [2], as gamers hope to make use of…
Of Counterfeit Sites and Denali Jackets
At hpHosts, Malwarebytes’s trusted blacklist of malicious sites, we also receive tip-offs or reports from users about one or two dodgy URLs…
Scammers Exploit Alton Towers Crash with Fake YouTube Video
It was inevitable that unscrupulous individuals would take advantage of the recent theme park tragedy, and sure enough we’re seeing reports…
Keygen Capers and Suurgle Surveys
While searching for potentially bogus key generators (or keygens) for our Malwarebytes products, we encountered a supposed tool for Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The…
Scams Within Facebook Press On, Use “Facebook for Business” Hook
Following up on our previous blog post about rogue Facebook Recovery accounts floating around within the said social network, it appears that such accounts,…
“Facebook Recovery” Accounts Share Phishing Link, Offer Tech Support
We’ve seen a certain j.mp shortened URL being shared by what we believe are rogue (if not compromised) accounts within Facebook a couple of…
Compromised .Gov Redirected to Apple ID Phish
We recently saw a .gov.vn URL which was redirecting to a phishing expedition for Apple IDs. First up, let’s take a look at the…