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Shifting Strategies: Using Social Media, SEO in Tech Support Scams

  • Posted on:February 28, 2019 at 10:01 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Tech support scams have diversified into new territory. They now use pop-up alerts and social engineering tactics to spread fake toll-free numbers and links of their fake tech support websites on popular social media platforms.

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Tags: social mediasocial media scamsTech support scams

An In-Depth Look Into Malicious Browser Extensions

  • Posted on:October 29, 2014 at 2:08 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Social
  • Author:
    Brooks Li (Threats Analyst)
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Malicious browser extensions bring about security risks as these often lead to system infection and unwanted spamming on Facebook. Based on our data, these attacks have notably affected users in Brazil. We have previously reported that cybercriminals are putting malicious browsers in the official Chrome Web store. We also came across malware that bypasses a Google security…

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Tags: Facebookmalicious browser extensionsocial media

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 3

  • Posted on:October 14, 2014 at 5:16 pm
  • Posted in:Social, Spam
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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In the two previous parts of this series of blog posts, we discussed the kinds of threats that we’re seeing on Twitter, as well as the scope and scale of these threats. In this part, we will discuss their motivations, and what end users can do. The first question is: why do cybercriminals bother doing…

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Tags: BotMakerphishingsocial mediaSpamTwittertwo-factor authentication

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 2

  • Posted on:October 1, 2014 at 11:12 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Social
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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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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Tags: malicious tweetsphishingsocial mediasocial networking threatsTwitter

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 1

  • Posted on:October 1, 2014 at 2:24 am
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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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…

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Tags: follower scamMalwarephishingsocial mediaSpamTwitter
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Security Predictions for 2020

  • Cybersecurity in 2020 will be viewed through many lenses — from differing attacker motivations and cybercriminal arsenal to technological developments and global threat intelligence — only so defenders can keep up with the broad range of threats.
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Business Process Compromise

  • Attackers are starting to invest in long-term operations that target specific processes enterprises rely on. They scout for vulnerable practices, susceptible systems and operational loopholes that they can leverage or abuse. To learn more, read our Security 101: Business Process Compromise.

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