AVG Net threat weekly update – Week 48

1. Facebook survey scams – Ashton Kutcher and fake imgur siteThe Facebook survey scam pages this week play off the usual celebrity gossip themes. One we’ve seen typically is the announcement multiple weeks ago of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s divorce, with all the lurid details,And, of course the simple bait, such as phony gift [...]  See More..

“Steam Birthday” crashed by party poopers

Here’s a rather amateur phish targeting Steam users, located at steambirthday(dot)com. No birthday prizes for guessing what this scam is all about: Click to Enhuge you realize you’re Coping with a special kind of phish when the opening ramble begins with “Steam is 3 years old: the Steam project began in 2003″ and “In a [...]  See More..

Facebook and Youtube phishing emails claim that you’ve sent also numerous emails

It is not the first time when we see phishing emails targeting Facebook users. It is too extremely standard to see brands like Facebook, Google, Twitter and others used to advertised on the internet pharmacies. Actually, we have blogged numerous times about several attempts to do this. Now, to increase the sense of urgency, the email comes [...]  See More..

Amazon phishing attack claims your account is about to expire

Have you received an email telling you that you simplyr Amazon.com account is about to expire? Does the message urge you to confirm that you simply have to confirm “wether” (sic) you wish to continue to make use of the account or risk deactivation? Well, hold up a minute. thinking about that In the event you respond to the notification in haste, you [...]  See More..

Facebook chat worm continues to spread

Last week Naked Security warned of a Facebook worm that was spreading on the social network, tricking users into believing that they were clicking on a link to an image. The bad news is that the attack appears to still appears to be spreading through Facebook’s chat system, exploiting compromised users’ accounts. An investigation by [...]  See More..

czredret.ru is Having on my nerves

I don’t know what has been going on with spam for the past couple of weeks, but there has been a tidal wave of the same old spam hammering away at filters over and over again. Today, about half are directing traffic to a Blackhole exploit kit on czredret.ru (see an investigation here). The spam [...]  See More..

Condom ad poses as Facebook frifinish request from your fetus

A condom enterprise is sfinishing frifinish requests from unborn sons to Facebook male users, Mashable reported over the weekfinish. A public service announcement from my cervix: fetuses tfinish not to sfinish out frifinish requests. These messages constitute spam: alarming click-candy that prompts Facebook users to click by way of to a fake profile that sports a link to [...]  See More..