In the previous blog post of this series, I introduced our paper titled An In-Depth Analysis of Abuse on Twitter that looked at the threats in the Twitter landscape, and explained the various kinds of malicious tweets we’ve seen. In this post, we look at the scope and scale of these threats. Malware Tweets Users in the…
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Senior Architect
Twitter is an important means of communication for many people, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it has become a medium that is exploited by cybercriminals as well. Together with researchers from Deakin University, we have released an in-depth paper titled An In-Depth Analysis of Abuse on Twitter that looks at the scale of this…
Read MoreRecently, I received a rather unusual call that claimed to be from National Australia Bank (NAB), one of the four largest banks in Australia. The caller had my complete name and my address. They claimed that they had flagged a suspicious transaction from my account to an Alex Smith in New Zealand to the tune…
Read MoreRecently Google announced that it had changed its policy dealing with images in email. In a blog post on the official Gmail blog, Google said: [You’ll] soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve…
Read MoreThe Blackhole Exploit Kit is one of the most notorious exploit kits currently in circulation among the cybercriminal underground today. Thus, we continuously monitor for incidents and attacks involving the exploit kit itself. Last week we reported about the spam campaign leveraging the birth of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s son. Our analysis of the…
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