This is an issue that recently came up when Facebook decided that they would start allowing third party developers to gather address and phone number information and share it with other people.
It didn’t take long for more rational people to figure out that randomly giving out a 13 year old girl’s phone number was at best a completely mindless idea, although it might just be evil intent. Randy Abrams, ESET’s Director of Technical Education, delves into the topic.
ZeuS cybercrime cookbook on sale in underground forums
Cybercrooks are offering what purports to be source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit through underground forums. The would-be seller, has lent credibility to the offer by including screenshots of what appears to be portions of the source code for ZeuS to his sales pitch. The Register reports.
AV company, heal thyself
Security companies have become all too familiar with fake anti-virus, fake support scams and so on. Unfortunately, so have our customers. AV detects an awful lot of it, but the guys who push this stuff are all too proficient at frequently tweaking malware to evade the scanners that cause them most problems. One of the more interesting (if irritating) aspects of this campaign is the occasional instance of out-and-out impersonation. David Harley has more on the subject.
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