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Home   »   Barack Obama

Another Social Media Day, Another Twitter Hack

  • Posted on:April 23, 2013 at 2:11 pm
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:Christopher Budd (Global Threat Communications)
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There’s a saying in journalism: report the news, don’t be the news. Unfortunately today the Associated Press (AP) ran afoul of that rule by having their Twitter account hijacked. In good journalistic fashion, they’re telling their own story quickly and with as much facts as possible. It sounds that they saw a phishing attack against…

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Tags: associated pressBarack Obamahackingpassword managementsocial mediaTwitter

Obama Worm: So Old, It’s New Again

  • Posted on:February 4, 2009 at 10:00 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    JM Hipolito (Technical Communications)
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After a malware dubbed as the “Obama worm” was found circulating within an Illinois elementary school’s network, security researchers traded opinions on the threat it brings about. Most reports mainly circulated on the issue of whether the file was malicious or not, considering that it has no malicious payload other than showing the following image…

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Tags: Barack Obama

Don’t be Fooled by Obama Inauguration Scams

  • Posted on:January 16, 2009 at 5:10 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jake Soriano (Technical Communications)
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Barack Obama’s campaign and eventual election to the United States presidency proved an excellent opportunity for cybercriminals in their malicious operations. News about the president-elect was a popular, and most of the time effective, social engineering technique used to trick unknowing Web users into downloading and installing malicious files in their PCs. Web threats that…

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Malware Watch: Obama ‘Impeachment’ Spam

  • Posted on:November 10, 2008 at 11:31 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Bernadette Irinco (Technical Communications)
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U.S. President candidate John McCain plans to impeach president elect Barack Obama, at least according to the latest post-election spam spotted today. Here’s a screenshot of the sample email message: Figure 1. Politically-tinged spam email just keeps coming Our researchers have seen the following subject lines containing the same text as the above: Barack Obama…

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Tags: Barack ObamaelectionsfakeimpeachmentJohn McCainMalwarepoliticsSpamTrojan

Obama Malware Spam Targets Latin America

  • Posted on:November 8, 2008 at 10:52 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Jake Soriano (Technical Communications)
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Malware criminals are continuing to attempt to exploit the intense media coverage involving the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. Presidency. A very recent spam run has already hit American online users — now a new and different spam run targeting Latin American online users was also recently discovered. Spammers have added some genuine…

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Tags: Barack ObamaLatin America
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