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Blog Comment Spam Honeypot

One of the most common vectors for distributing malware nowadays is spamming blogs with comments pointing to malicious sites that host exploits, malware, rogue antiviruses or other types of scams.In order to analyze the huge volume of spam comments that come in through our various Panda Blogs (PandaLabs, Panda Research, …source


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Malicious tweets link up to Pay Per Click Fraudware

Last year, we observed a widespread targeted attack on Twitter which optimized a malware campaign by automatically creating thousands of tweets with a trending topic item and a link to a malicious site.  Clicking on any of the links in the attack rendered the typical fake security software website designed …source


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Malicious tweets link up to Pay Per Click Fraudware

Last year, we observed a widespread targeted attack on Twitter which optimized a malware campaign by automatically creating thousands of tweets with a trending topic item and a link to a malicious site.  Clicking on any of the links in the attack rendered the typical fake security software website designed …source


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BlackHat SEO attack targeting Google Nexus One (Updated)

A few days ago Google presented their brand new phone, called Nexus One:And some days later we find out that if a user searchs for “buy Nexus One” he will obtain around 4,000 malicious links:When clicking on any of these links, you will see …source


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BlackHat SEO attack targeting Google Nexus One (Updated)

A few days ago Google presented their brand new phone, called Nexus One:And some days later we find out that if a user searchs for “buy Nexus One” he will obtain around 4,000 malicious links:When clicking on any of these links, you will see …source