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Breaking news: Counterfeit statement of Fidel Castro’s death lead to malware assault

Exist on your protector if you take delivery of an email apparently from Chile’s “24 Horas” news website announce the death of Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba.


The spammed out messages, which are written in Spanish, look like the following:

The messages have a topic line of

Murio Fidel Castro



 

And the text in the emails claims that the longtime Cuban ruler died in the afternoon at his home, and that official claim that he was in use ill a few days ago after suffering a unexpected heart attack.

Recipients are urging to click on the image to see a breaking news video report about Fidel Castro’s death.

 

Of course, if Castro was actually dead (it’s believed that he has been in very poor health for some years) then it would be headline news on the likes of the BBC and CNN. But I haven’t seen any reports from those news outlets.

So don’t be fooled into clicking on the links in this email, as they will take your computer to a Trojan horse (which Sophos detects as Troj/DwnLdr-JGW) that in turns downloads further malicious code (Troj/Agent-SYF) onto your Windows PC.

Lady Gaga establish dead in lodge room? Be careful Face book clickjacking scam

Has Lady Gaga actually be found dead in a hotel room? A scam which has increase rapidly across Facebook would surely like you to think so.

Heres’s an instance of a message that is life form seen spreading virally on Facebook, affectation as a link to a BBC TV News report.

 

 

 

Lady Gaga establish dead in hotel room

 

BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room

This is the most awful day in US history

 

Wow. I denote, yes, it would be tragic if Lady Gaga were to die, but.. Seriously.. “The most awful day in US history”?Anyway, if you are tricked into clicking on the link you are taken in the end (via a website which sloppily allows an open redirect) to a webpage that pretends to contain a BBC News video report:

 

Watch out, though, if you try to play the video as this is a clickjacking scam which attempt to silently say you “Like” the page when you click with your mouse.

Users who have installed a browser add-on such a No Script for Firefox will see a message caution them of the peril of being click jacked.

If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, remove the messages and likes from your Facebook page – and caution your friends not to click on the offending links. Clearly there’s much more work which wants to be done by Facebook to prevent these sorts of messages spreading so fast.

 

Larissa Riquelme spam

A supposed sex record showcasing Larissa Riquelme a Paraguayan model continue to flow online while hiding a unhelpful PC Trojan or virus which infects systems that download the video. Todanoticia.com reports this throughout the 3rd week of July 2010.The malicious e-mail, in an effort to come into view believable as well as cheat the receiver, uses and speak to purport to be from news @ @ comercio.com.pe. At the same time, it attempt at sending an e-mail from El Comercio’s (Peruvian newspaper) online account.

States the e-mail, a sure security camera wedged model Larissa Riquelme of Paraguay, who is also referred to as “Bride of the World,” in an close position with a soccer player from Peru at a Miraflores hotel, causing much surprise to many. The e-mail, reportedly, provides an attachment containing a video file. EWorldpost.com reported this during the 3rd week of July 2010.

Also, there’s also a web-link named elcomercio.pe in the e-mail that the reader is hypothetical to click.

Security researchers corroborate that the e-mail is a spam and the more popular ‘celebrity spam’ type. During the recent years, the method has used several celebrity names like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears with an objective to get users to follow hateful web-links.

Troublingly, the researchers report of a rising overlap between malware writers and spammers, with a nasty cycle of spam being utilized for disseminating malicious software that in turn disseminate additional spam.

As a consequence of the maliciousness intrinsic in these kinds of harmful spam runs, safety specialists advocate Internet users that they must adopt certain simple events that will keep their systems safe from getting hijacked with such spam mails. First, they must delete all spam mails without even viewing them. Second, they mustn’t follow web-links implanted on e-mails of these kinds since the web-links can have malware able of compromise their systems.

Also, users must install the most recent anti-spyware and anti-virus programs along with a excellence firewall that will keep their PCs guarded. And if there is any doubt that a user’s PC has been impure alternatively hijacked then he must get his PC examined without the least delay.

Miley Cyrus hacker “worn numerous celebrity MySpace accounts for spamming”

The 19-year-old hacker who was raid last October for supposedly breaking into Miley Cyrus’s MySpace account and stealing candid photographs of the teenage singer, also hacking into the accounts of other stars according to the FBI.

According to an affidavit obtained by News Channel 5, Miley Cyrus was not the only fatality of Tennessee teenager Josh Holly who used the online pet name “Trainreq“.

Wired magazine rumor that music stars such as Rihanna, Chris Brown, Linkin Park and fall out Boy had their MySpace accounts compromised, with Holly spamming fans post about where they could download ringtones for their favourite artists. Advertising affiliate are said to have paid Holly between $5 and $12 for each person who respond to the adverts.

 

 

 

According to the documents, Holly established $110,000 from the scheme among November 2007 and July 2008, though he claims that half of the money went to an Israeli-based accomplice.

In the meantime, Holly is still organization his Trainreq website, apparently courting attention from the media, where he is even in a row a poll asking people what punishment visitors think he should receive

Amy Wine house bereavement hoax video scams come into view on Face book

Anxious singer Amy Wine house was establish dead in her North London home today, making headline approximately the world. Within four hours, cold-hearted scammers were taking benefit of her death on Face book.

 

If you see links like the following in your newsfeed, please don’t click on them.

Amy Winehouse is dead!!

Leaked Video!! Amy Winehouse on Crack hours before death

[LINK]

Amy Winehouse getting high on crack just hours before she died

 

Video leaked of Amy Winehouse’s death

 

Video leaked of amy winehouse’s death!!! Warning: Graphical Content.

[LINK]

Amy Winehouse OVERDOSE VIDEO LEAKED! – RIP AMY

 

Scammers are like vultures, feeding off tragedy such as the death of Amy Winehouse or the horrific proceedings in Norway yesterday.

 

Scams like this usually lead you to online surveys, with the scammers earn themselves commission for each survey that victims complete. But first they trick you into sharing the link with your other Face book friends.

 

If you got hit by this scam, build sure you have detached the entries from your news feed (to stop them being shared amongst your friends), mark them as spam if you like, and check your profile does not have any unwanted “Likes” under your “Likes and interests”.

Scrubs star Zach Braff’s website hacked to articulate he is gay

Scrubs star Zach Braff’s website hacked to articulate he is gay

Keep in mind Zach Braff (Did his parents really choose this name for him?), star of hospital comedy series Scrubs where he play the hapless and endearing character Dr John Dorian?

 

 

Fine, days gone by Braff announce on Face book that his website was hacked to show a bogus letter to loyal fans admit that he was gay.According to more than a few media reports, Braff’s publicist says that the website was old and hadn’t not been efficient since 2006.

 

 

The hackers allegedly added the following statement to the site:

 

“To all my loyal fans, I have been hiding this secret inside me for too long…I am excited and proud to announce that I am an open member of the homosexual community. This is not news to those closest to me, and I honor that they have kept it a secret for such a long time.”

 

Zach Braff with girlfriend Taylor Bagley the information must have come as a revelation to Taylor Bagley, the actor’s girlfriend.Soon, all was clearer, as the 36-year-old Scrubs actor free a statement on his Face book page in an effort to stamp out the rumours about his sexuality:

“My old website got hacked. Someone issued a “coming out” statement on my behalf. I’m still straight and in love with my girlfriend. But not too straight; I still love musicals, brunch and Doogie Howser.”


 

I hesitation a lot of of us mind whether Braff is gay or not. I certainly don’t. But this story underline the importance of not forgetting about websites we may have shaped in the past.

If you have a website that you no longer care about, get rid of it. At the very least, you should keep its security up to date. Old sites are much easier targets for hackers than those with up-to-date defenses.

Be cautious the Justin Bieber erection Face book scam

That’s perhaps the most improbable caption I’ve still had to write in my computer security vocation, but never mind…

If that’s the case then they might be intrigue by a note that is dispersal virally across the Face book social net claim to be recording of… and how can I put this precisely? I don’t think I can.. Justin Bieber with an erection.

Messages like the following are being seen:

 

WTF !! I just saw that Justin Bieber got erection in a public interview.lol

 

Almost certainly not the kind of message you would characteristically click on from your office computer, but maybe a young teeny bopping music fan in your family would find the subject matter tempting to investigate further.

And if they do click on the link they are taken to a Face book page with the meaning “Justin Bieber gets a boner in Public!!!”, and an invitation to “Click to watch” a video.

The pages contain a graphic claim that the application is a “Face book established app” (which seems unlikely given the subject matter).Would young female fans of Justin Bieber be likely to go further – I suspect so.

 

As is usual in scams like this on Face book, you are then obtainable with a message from Face book ask you to corroborate that you are happy for the third social gathering request to have all sorts of access to your Face book account – counting the ability to post messages to your wall.

 

This is your last possibility to be levelheaded, and not put your account at risk. Unluckily far too many people are trick by social engineering to give doubtful third party apps like this full reign to mess around with their Face book accounts. If they’re not using the modern day equivalent of David Cassidy to lure users into granting permission, they’re pretending to be new Face book functionality like “Dislike” buttons, or pretending to be free tickets with an airline.

 

But if you do make the error of clicking further, then you will find that you are not watching a video of Bieber having trouser trouble, but instead being asked to take a survey. Surveys like this generate revenue for the scammers who are behind the application – they earn charge for every survey that is completed. In the background. Meanwhile, the scoundrel application has ill-treated your social networking account dispersal the spam virally via your wall to your Face book friends and family.

It’s only usual that scams like this will carry on for as long as users continue to fall for silly tricks like this, and the scammers continue to find it monetarily rewarding. If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, remove reference to it from your newsfeed, and revoke the right of rogue applications to access your profile via Account/ Privacy Settings/ Applications and Websites.

I’ve made a YouTube video where I show you how to clean-up your Face book account if you were hit by this or similar scams on Face book:

Don’t not remember – if you know young people who use Face book, you should warn them about scams like this and teach them not to trust every link that is placed in front of them.

Rumour of Taliban leader’s death News was hacked?

Mullah Omar It seems that the UK isn’t the merely country at the centre of a phone hack scandal.


 

 

A orator for the Taliban have claim that phones, email accounts and a website belong to the collection were hacked, and text mail dispersed claim that their isolated Afghan leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had die from heart illness.

The unique SMS text messages were conventional from phone numbers belonging to Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Yousuf, and read:

“Spiritual Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has died. May Allah bless his soul?”



 

Zabihullah Mujahid angrily deprived of the rumours that Mullah Omar, one of the world’s most required men, was dead, in a meeting with Reuters.

 

“This is the work of American intelligence, and we will take revenge on the telephone network providers.”

Whether the mobile phones of Taliban spokesperson were in fact hacked, or whether their phone numbers were spoofed when distribution the messages, is unclear at this point in time. But it seems likely that the Taliban will be look into how it can better secure its infrastructure in future.

According to Zabihullah Mujahid, the United States has infertile access to the Taliban websites. If the US forces were accountable for the rumours of Mullah Omar’s death, in the hope of destabilize and puzzling the Taliban, it surely wouldn’t be a surprise.

After all, disinformation and mental fighting have been going on for hundreds of years. Mullah Mohammed Omar has been in trouncing since October 2001, with the USA offering a $10 million bounty for information most important to his capture.

Lady Gaga website stay eccentrically hushed in excess of database hack

Lady Gaga hacked gang of hackers known as SwagSec announce at the tail end of last week that they had hack into Lady Gaga’s UK website and complete off with a database of names and email addresses of fans. To show their point, they published the stolen data online.

The press reported that a source close to Lady Gaga said that she was:

“Upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen”

 

 


 

If she was trouble, she made no talk about of the hack on her Twitter page, and posts no request for forgiveness to her UK fans for the poor website safety. She wasn’t, though, too upset to chirp about Emmy award nomination or to drop a line to Cher about doing a duet remix.

Though its right that the establishment should be knowledgeable regarding SwagSec’s illegal behavior, there is supposed to certainly be some credit at Gaga HQ that perhaps the website was doing a lousy job at securing its fans’ information? Lady Gaga’s record label, worldwide, said it had inveterate that the hack had occurred and said that police had been informed.

 

“The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a part of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken. We take this very gravely and have put in place additional measures to protect for myself particular information. All those affected have been advised.”

 

The risk to users who had their details compromise, of course, is that they could have been the theme of targeted attacks. Imagine how many of them might have opened an attachment or clicked on a link if they received an email claim to be about free tickets for a Lady Gaga concert, or a sneak sample of her new video. But although Universal says that it has contacted everyone who was exaggerated – can they be confident that they know the extent of SwagSec’s hack? After all, the hack is claim to have occurred weeks ago, but was only made public by SwagSec at the end of previous week.

 

Wouldn’t it be more open and transparent to have a message to fans of the Lady Gaga UK website, telling them all what occurred? I went looking and couldn’t find anything to warn the wider array of Lady Gaga fans.

Hugh Hefner is NOT dead -hoax spreads through Internet

Hugh Hefner Hugh Hefner is the newest famous person to have been determined by rumors of his death, dispersal across the internet.

Social networks such as Face book and Twitter were abuzz with news of the end of the iconic creator of Playboy magazine, who has lately had a little trouble in matters of the heart when his Playmate fiancee Crystal Harris called off their marriage. According to reports, Hefner was supposed to have died of a heart attack on Monday 11th July at 10:58PM EST.


 

 

 

Would you have supposed the reports from your social networking associates, or gone hunt for further confirmation? After all, in the history we’ve seen internet rumors spread about the hypothetical death of Christian Slater and Tom Cruise. Also, neither Johnny Depp nor Harry Potter starlet Emma Watson nor Kanye West have died in a car crash either.

 

A website called ThinkRichMusic may have been partly accountable for rousing up the frantic coverage of the dressing gown-wearing octogenarian’s demise with its over-excitable reporting. Cynics may speculate if a website might be keen to post a false story concerning the death of a celebrity in order to take delivery of a flood of traffic from social networkers, trying to corroborate the news.

 

 

 

I’m satisfied to see that ThinkRichMusic has now post an addition to its article saying that Hefner is not dead. But I wonder how many people scroll down that far. I believe there’s a significant lesson for all internet users, to get their news from entrenched news sites. On too many occasion we have seen malware being distributed from poisoned WebPages that claim to contain breaking news or shocking videos featuring people in the headline.

 

Fortunately, the news of Hefner’s death was false, and the founder of Playboy magazine turned to twitter to announce, in the style of Mark Twain, that the rumors of his death were greatly overstated.

Hefner, ever the self-publicist, also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to point out that not only was he far from dead, but he was also “lying in bed” next to his new Playboy model girlfriend Shera Be chard with a “big smile on [his] face”.

Some belongings never change. Another thing which won’t change is cybercriminals taking advantage of internet memes and breaking news stories – whether they are based in truth or utter garbage.