Conficker: ‘Headless Botnet’ Still Infecting Windows Users Researchers say the notorious Windows worm has created a “headless botnet” – but one that continues to maintain a hold of millions of computers. A year after the infamous April 1 doomsday deadline, the investigation into the masterminds of the worm continues. Read the rest of this article [...]
Trademytweets[SCAM]com is a new variation of the old Tweeterfast, Tweeterfollow theme. Recent domains that have operated under the same gray umbrella are gettwitterfollowersforfree.com and SpreadMyTweets.com. Trademytweets claims: “How does it work? When you sign in with your Twitter details, our system will find you 20, 40, 60 or 100 other Tweeters. Then with these people [...]
I’ve been following the Tweeterfollow musical domain saga since late September 2009. The theme never changes. I’ve also written about their scam/phishing/twitter account hijackings here. Yesterday the Tweeterfollow (AKA: TF) domain push on Twitter was via Twtxtreme.info (currently disabled) using short url services tinyURL and retwt.me. Today it looks like TF is promoting twtkingz.info via [...]
Update: 10/06/2009 Though this was not an obvious phishing campaign that takes your money, McAfee Site Advisor Rating: Phishing or other scams This site uses your Twitter account info to send spammy messages to your followers. Here is an example: “I got 100 followers using http://TwitPWR.com/swf/ . Check it out!” This is a clear case [...]
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