by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The GFI Malware Minute video is available for your viewing pleasure on the GFI-Labs YouTube channel (and below).Malware Minutes are short videos (1-2 minutes) that provide a weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI-Labs Blog, the GFI- Rogue Blog and anything else we...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
A.: When it’s a toolbar installerThe any-load.com site, and there are about a dozen more like it out there, presents itself as a peer-to-peer network with almost 120 million files for your downloading pleasure. It doesn’t really do that though.We took it for a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Alert reader Janne sent us a tip on this one. Apparently there was a huge surge of Twitter spam this morning “I just won a free iphone and ipad” that contained a shortened URL to a malicious site. Those who clicked on it retweeted the message. It looked...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The site I’m going to write about today has apparently already been shut down for abuse, but the content seems good fodder for a “cut and paste” campaign so let’s take a look at the smouldering corpse anyway.Runescape is the name of the game,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today alert reader Matthew drew out attention to this one. It’s yet one more Facebook application scams: “My total Facebook views are…” It’s pretty good social engineeering. Who wouldn’t want to know how many people have viewed their Facebook...
