2013 February 28 | Security Intelligence

Targeted Attacks
- Anonymous’ #OpPetrol: What is it, What to Expect, Why Care?
- RARSTONE Found In Targeted Attacks
- How Targeted Attacks And Cybercrime Go Together
- What Connections Between Attacks Say About Them
- Hiding in Plain Sight: A New Targeted Attack Campaign

Mobile
- Detecting Hidden Administrator Apps on Your Mobile Device
- Cybercriminals Improve Android Malware Stealth Routines with OBAD
- The Android Fragmentation Problem
- Mobile Device “Security”: The Problems of Remotely Disabling Stolen Phones
- Get Free Followers! on Instagram? Get Free Malware, Survey Scams Instead

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Cybercriminals Hop On the Google Project Glass Bandwagon

3:33 pm (UTC-7) | by Ruby Santos (Fraud Analyst)

Cybercriminals tend to leverage what’s popular and new. Case in point, the much-anticipated Google Project Glass is being used as a social engineering lure to trick unsuspecting users into scams.

We found that one of the top results for the search term “free Google glasses” is an eye-catching YouTube link with the title [{FREE}] Google Project Glass [[FREE GOOGLE GLASSES]:

Figure 1. Search results for ‘free Google glasses’

The video was copied from the original Google Glass YouTube advertisement. The YouTube video also contains information on how to get the Google Glass for free as seen in the screenshot below: