Farmville and “Sex and the City 2” Used as Bait to Hijack Facebook’s “Like” Button

Calendar July 1, 2010 | Posted by admin

PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, has reported the proliferation of scams hijacking the Facebook “Like” option. The attack uses eye-catching messages related to the popular game Farmville, the “Sex and the City 2” movie or the keyword sex to grab the attention of logged-in Facebook users as they browse [...]

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Weekly Report on Viruses and Intruders – 01/15/10]

Calendar January 15, 2010 | Posted by admin

This week’s PandaLabs report looks at three new fake antiviruses. LivePcCare is the first of these malicious programs. As usual with these malicious codes, first it carries out a fake scan of the infected user’s computer, and then claims the system is infected. It asks the user to purchase a license (of a fake antivirus) [...]

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