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“Free $200 Ebay Gift Card” leads to rogue Facebook app

A message sharing an “event” offering a “Free $200 Ebay Gift Card for first 10,000 Attendants!” has been popping up on Facebook users’ walls in …

Whitney Houston death video leads to scams

Cyber crooks often try to pique the users’ interest with fake news of a celebrity death but, unfortunately, sometimes they don’t have fake it. Pop diva Whitney …

Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware

If you spot a Facebook friend of yours worrying about and linking to news about the US attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia, curb your curiosity and don’t follow the link if …

Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook

A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of …

Facebook survey scam bundled with phishing attempt

Facebook survey scammers have lately become great fans of browser add-ons that force scammy messages onto the victims’ Wall and News feed, but in a recent campaign they …

(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 33 released

(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 33 has been released today. Table of contents: …

Facebook scammers leverage the Amazon Cloud

Survey scams have been targeting Facebook users for longer that they would wish. The goal of all of them has always been to make users fill out survey, but the lures and …

“Chuck Norris is dead” Facebook scam

Chuck Norris, the popular martial artist/ actor whose “tough guy” image has spawned a countless jokes and memes on the Internet, has been killed off by Facebook …

Rogue apps make comeback in “Hours spent on Facebook” scam

Rogue Facebook applications were at one point in time extremely popular with scammers, but users getting wise regarding that approach have made the crooks steer clear of them …

Koobface botnet goes down, suspects scurry to erase tracks

As the names of the five individuals believed to be behind the Koobface botnet were revealed on Tuesday, their reaction was almost immediate and seems to validate the …

Free Facebook Mug scam doing rounds

A few months ago it was a free Facebook t-shirt to celebrate the social network’s 7th birthday, now it’s a free Facebook-themed ceramic mug, but the scam behind …

Trojan steals e-cash vouchers from Facebook users

Recently, Trusteer came across a new configuration of the Carberp Trojan that targets Facebook users to commit financial fraud. Unlike previous Facebook attacks designed to …

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