Over the weekend, news reports of “hacked” iTunes accounts used to purchase worthless apps surfaced. And since there was no evidence nor report of an iTunes App Store data leak, it is most likely that individual iTunes user credentials were stolen via phishing attacks. What’s interesting about this incident is it doesn’t involve any malicious app

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Cybercriminals Make Money Out of App Store

The infamous KOOBFACE botnet is sending direct messages (DMs) on Facebook . If this sounds familiar… it should be, as this tactic was previously discussed here in the Malware Blog back in March.

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KOOBFACE Spreading via Facebook DMs Again

Cybercriminals leveraging social media is now basically a given, especially with users’ current dedication to social media (specifically on social networks). Actually, we’ve reported quite a few instances that prove how cybercriminals used Twitter for their operation, most especially in spamming.

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Twitter Kit Out to Make Twitter a Spammers’ Dream

Yesterday we blogged about a new piece of Symbian malware, which we detected as SYMBOS_FLOCK.I . This malware targets users of older Series 60 devices.

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SYMBOS_FLOCK.I – Where Does It Come From?

Millions of websites such as online news, blogs, e-commerce, banks, webmail, social networking and more utilize third-party hosted content on their webpages in the form of JavaScript, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, HTML IFrames, and images. Often referred to as Web Widgets , common examples are banners (Google AdSense), search boxes (Yahoo), traffic counters (StatCounter), games (Pogo), videos (YouTube), Twitter / RSS feeds, user polls, security badges (VeriSign Secured Seal), social buttons (Facebook Like), etc.

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Third-Party Web Widget Security FAQ

Despite threats, companies lack policies on social media at work read more

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Social Media: Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without It.

In the past month, several phishing websites were observed to be spoofing online gaming brands. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup has encouraged users to visit legitimate gaming sites to play online football. The phishing sites were created with the hope of luring users to give up their credentials if they fell for fake offers celebrating the FIFA World Cup 2010

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Fraudulent Gaming Sites Providing Fake FIFA Offers

Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses.

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Malware Sales Through Social Networks

June 25, 2009 is a day that is etched in the memory of Michael Jackson fans worldwide. Jackson's death took a lot of people by surprise—the spammers included

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The King of Pop Lives On and Spammers are Paying Attention!