Tag: twitter
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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Tens of thousands of fake Twitter accounts passed off and sold as ‘followers’
After initial takedown, more efforts put into making new fake accounts look genuine. Virus Bulletin ‘s research into a scam selling fake Twitter accounts being passed off as ‘followers’ has helped in the takedown of more than 45,000 such accounts – but has also showed that the scammers are upping their game. The success of…
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Twitter, Facebook accounts used in watering hole campaign
USAID sympathizers targeted with links from ‘like-minded people’. Two social networking accounts have been discovered that were used in a recent targeted attack. Opinions on social networking vary, but there are many users who allow apparently like-minded people – that they may otherwise never have come across – to connect with them. Unfortunately, as blogger…
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VB conference hashtag used to spread malware
Tweet promising conference news links to trojan. A tweet using the #vb2011 hashtag, which was used in numerous tweets referring to last week’s VB2011 conference , contained a link spreading malware, according to researchers at BitDefender . The link used a URL-shortening service to download a file named VB2011.exe , which, once executed, injected a…
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Bank’s Twitter account hacked to send phishing messages
Important lessons for companies engaging in social media. Last week, the Twitter account of the Bank of Melbourne was hacked and used to send direct messages containing phishing links to its followers. A recently relaunched subsidiary of Westpac , the Australian bank engages heavily with its customers through its @BankofMelb Twitter account. However, the security…
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Rogue Twitter application steals passwords
‘See who stalks my Twitter’ used to lure users. A malicious Twitter application is currently spreading on the microblogging network, luring users to hand over their passwords, supposedly so they can see who is ‘stalking’ them on the site. At first glance, the page where the application (dubbed ‘StalkTrak’) asks to be authorized may look…
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Malicious tweets link to fake TweetDeck update
Twitter resets passwords for accounts that appear to have been hacked. Twitter users who recently clicked on links in tweets urging them to upgrade their version of TweetDeck – the popular desktop software used to read and post on Twitter – may have found themselves infected with a trojan. Many of the tweets, which are…