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Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)

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iCloud Hacking Leak Now Being Used As Social Engineering Lure

  • Posted on:September 3, 2014
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Social
  • Posted by:
    Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)
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With the entire internet abuzz about the iCloud hacking leak – where more than a hundred celebrities had their private photos leaked online- it would certainly only be a matter of time before some enterprising cybercriminal decided that things were ripe for leveraging with socially-engineered threats. And that’s just what happened, as our scanning brought to…

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Tags: celebrity hackFacebookiCloudleakageTwitter

Fake Adobe Flash Update Aimed At Turkish Users

  • Posted on:January 27, 2014
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Social, Spam
  • Posted by:
    Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)
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Fake Flash player scams have been around for a long time, but remarkably they still haven’t gone away. Now, they’re targeting users in Turkey. A recent attack that we found starts off with a video link sent to users via Facebook’s messaging system (sent in Turkish). This “video” prompts users to install a Flash Player…

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Tags: Adobe Flash PlayerFacebookGoogle ChromeTurkeyTwitter

Watching Out For Typhoon Haiyan Scams

  • Posted on:November 19, 2013
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Posted by:
    Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)
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More than a week has passed since Typhoon Haiyan made landfall over the central Philippines, leaving thousands dead or injured, with millions more in need of humanitarian assistance. More than US$248 million in relief has been given both by governments and the private sector to date. Unfortunately, many scams have already taken advantage of this disaster….

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Tags: charityHaiyanPhilippinesreliefscamstyphoonYolanda

Mobile Phishing Attack Asks for Government IDs

  • Posted on:August 13, 2013
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Posted by:
    Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)
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Early this August, we wrote about cybercriminals using a well-publicized vulnerability in Android to launch an attack against users who do their online banking on their mobile devices through an app. This time, we discovered a mobile phishing attack that not only attempts to steal users’ login details, but also asks victims to upload an image file copy…

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Tags: chasedata lossinformation theftMobilemobile threatsphishing

Fake Page With “90 Million Likes” Leads to Fake Adobe Flash

  • Posted on:April 19, 2013
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Social
  • Posted by:
    Arabelle Mae Ebora (Fraud Analyst)
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Besides the fake Facebook Profile Viewer ruse, we found another Facebook scam that lures users into downloading a fake Adobe Flash Player plugin. We noticed countless feeds pointing to a Facebook page with more than 90 million “likes”. For some, this huge number of Facebook likes may be enough for them to check the page…

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Tags: Facebookfake adobe flash playerscamssocial media threats
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