Localized scams are gaining more ground on Facebook and the success of a recent one is proof that non-English speakers are still uneducated about such threats.The latest attack lures Italian users with an amateur video of a young man firing a gun at the San Pietrini police in Piazza del Popolo.The message spammed by ... |
28 March 2011
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a new clickjacking attack, which employs advanced social engineering to trick Facebook users into advertising rogue pages.The spam messages posted from the affected accounts read "Cheerleaders gone wild – have to see this" and contain a link and a picture of an attractiv... |
9 September 2010
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that a new Facebook survey scam forces users to advertise rogue pages from their profiles by employing clickjacking techniques.The attack starts as most Facebook scams, with a spam message sent by someone in your friends list containing a link to a rogue page, in this case about ... |
18 August 2010
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The Facebook staff has been hard at work to squash a new worm propagating on the social networking platform with the help of unwary users. Using the image of a female model in lingerie as lure, the nuisance spread from wall to wall through a Web exploitation technique known as clickjacking.This most recent attack doe... |
24 November 2009
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After the Twitter staff had a hard time patching a harmless, but intriguing, clickjacking attack originally launched by a French blogger, a British web developer has come up with a similar new way to mess with the users of the micro-blogging website. At the end of January, a URL with a message reading "Don't cl... |
27 February 2009
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A new variant of the "Don't click" clickjacking user-propagated link has been making victims on Twitter. The new attack was launched by someone who found a way around the original fix deployed by the Twitter staff.A few days ago, users of the popular micro-blogging service Twitter have been the target of an atta... |
14 February 2009
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A mysterious “Don't click” link was being spread by Twitter users, who obviously were curious enough to click on it. The attack proved nothing more than a harmless clickjacking demonstration, but it was nevertheless addressed by the Twitter staff. At the end of January, a blogger released (translate... |
13 February 2009
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