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Facebook Help Center Flooded with Sports and Movie Spam It turns out that not only the walls of Facebook members are at risk of becoming flooded with spam messages, as now the site’s Help Center Community Forum witnessed a massive attack from spammers that promote their malicious campaign by posting fake movie and sports events streaming offers. Facebookprivacya...	26 November 2011 05:50 GMT

Malicious Links Spammed from Fake Amazon Profiles Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler have identified many fake Amazon profiles which are being used to spam links to rogue online pharmacies and malware distribution sites.Fake profiles have long been used for spam on all websites that allow inter-user communication, starting years ago with forum...	2 December 2010 03:52 GMT

Twitter Trends Poisoned with Malicious Links Security researchers warn that malware distributors are aggressively pushing malicious links via Twitter Trends in a BHSEO-like campaign meant to infect users.Just like Google Trends, which lists the hottest Google search topics and keywords, Twitter Trends provides a list of most discussed subjects on the microblogg...	2 December 2010 02:31 GMT

Fake My Opera Account Activation Emails in Circulation Web and email security vendor Websense has issued an alert about a new spam campaign producing fake My Opera account activation emails. All links contained in the rogue messages lead to a malicious website.“Heads up! Malicious My.Opera.com account activation emails are now circulating,” a warning posted o...	15 July 2010 13:24 GMT

Digg Abused to Distribute Malware Security researchers are warning that the popular social bookmarking service Digg is being abused by malware distributors by creating fake news stories and promoting them, or by posting malicious comments to legit entries. Most of them lead to malware masquerading as a video codec. Panda Security analysts say this t...	13 February 2009 07:16 GMT

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