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Ashley Greene’s nude pics being distorted by hackers in web scam

Bare pictures of actress Ashley Greene have fallen into the hands of cyber crooks who are misusing them to hack into people’s computers.

The ‘Twilight’ star, which portrays the position of Alice Cullen in the hit vampire movie, before endangered to file a court case alongside anybody who posted her leaked naked pictures on the Internet.

The 22-year-old was said to have caught the notice of hackers, who have been flooding the web with hundreds of scoundrel links using the pictures to steal personal information and bank details or spread viruses. Graham Cluley, from web security firm Sophos, warned surfers against aperture the links over possible refuge threats.

“Thousands of people will be searching Google for these pictures right now and the hackers know it,” The Sun quoted Cluley as saying.

“There are more and more malware attacks targeting both PC and Mac users – so whatever system you use, infection could be just a click away.

“My advice is that if you’re a fan of Ashley Greene – go see her movies in the cinema or on DVD, don’t hunt for naked images of her on the internet,” Cluley added.

Twilight Saga fan Being Scammed on Face book spreads virally across the site.

Devoted Twilight Saga fans have been under attack by hackers on social networking site Face book.

Scammers are pretending to link to a game that supposedly promotes the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn which stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. However, the link is really a scam which is activated when users click the ‘Play now’ button.

Once clicked, users are snap jacked and a post appears on their Face book wall announce that they ‘Like’ the link. This income that the scam has extend virally across the site.Users are then obtainable with a dialogue box which asks them to grant authorization for a third party request to access their Face book account and post messages and updates etc on it.

According to IT Web, Brett Myroff, CEO of regional Sophos distributor, Sophos South Africa said: “Twilight fans might quite perhaps grant permission without thinking. The only problem is that this isn’t a legitimate application request, but a rogue submission that wants to make money out of users’ devotion to the series of novels.

“Unsurprisingly, having gained the ability to post to your Face book account, the scammers then present an online review that earns them affiliate commission for each person who completes the questionnaire. If Face book users have been exaggerated by this scam, they ought to clean up their account before any further damage is done.”

Jackson suicide spam hides virus

A Windows e-mail virus is annoying to entangle victims by claiming that Michael Jackson has attempted suicide, utter computer security firms. The message hopes to grasp people’s concentration because of the enormous attention in the on-going child abuse trial. The fake message contains a web link that supposedly links to Mr. Jackson’s suicide note. But anyone clicking on the link will have their PC invaded by a virus that gives others access to that machine.

Contagious link

The message was first discovered early on 10 June and previously anti-virus companies have seen many copy of the e-mail circulate online.The sick minds behind viruses and other malware often exploit celebrity names and news stories in an attempt to infect as many people as possible

Like many recent Windows viruses the malicious message does not use a technical trick or loophole to infect machines. Instead it relies on tricking users into infecting themselves.

The badly-spelled message – its subject line is “Suicidal attempt“ – claims that the suicide attempt was in reaction to the stress of the trial. A verdict is due in the case soon. Those who tick on the link in the fake e-mail to see the supposed suicide note will get a message suggesting that the site hosting it is busy.

“That may not surprise people who think it might contain genuine breaking news about Michael Jackson,” said Carole Theriault, refuge advisor for security firm Sophos.

Do not click

Ms Theriault said the full of activity message is a diversionary tactic because, unseen, a virus is being downloaded on to a user’s machine.

The virus downloaded is a variant of the Borobt-Gen Trojan which gives the virus’ creator a backdoor into infected machines.

“The sick minds behind viruses and other malware often exploit celebrity names and news stories in an attempt to infect as many people as possible,” said Ms Theriault.

She urged users to be wary of clicking on links or opening attachments in unsolicited e-mail messages.

Miley Cyrus Pictures worn as entice in New Face book Scam

Pictures of young actress Miley Cyrus are again being used as lure by Face book scammers to trick users into spamming their friends and completing deceptive surveys. Ever since risqué photos of her were leaked onto the Internet at the age of fifteen, Miley Cyrus’s name has been regularly used in scams.

The recently turned 18 actresses and singer didn’t make things all that hard either with all the controversial situations she constantly placed herself in. The latest one involved being photographed while smoking salvia from a bong a few days after her eighteenth birthday.

 

 

According to Face crooks, the latest spam messages circulating around Face book read: “SICK! I lost all my respect for MILEY CYRUS after watching these shocking pictures! ===> [link]”


 

The link takes users to a rogue app called “Miley did a sad mistake” which requests permission to post on their walls and access their profile information. The only purpose of this app is to send spam messages from victims’ accounts in order to propagate the scam.

 

And of course, people who misguidedly install the app don’t get to see any picture of Miley Cyrus. Instead, they are asked to complete a survey, allegedly as a security check. In addition to earning money for scammers through affiliate marketing schemes, these so called surveys attempt to subscribe people to premium rate services billed to their mobile phones.

 

 

People who fell victim to this scam should go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and revoke the permissions of any apps they don’t recognize or need.

 

 

Affected users should also remove the spam messages posted by the app on their walls in order to protect their friends and family members. Also, people who provided their phone number during one of these surveys should contact their mobile operator immediately and request the blocking of any additional charges.

Lindsay Lohan Spreader Tape worn as decoy in Face book Scam

Face book scammer’s shows potential a Lindsay Lohan Spreads the tape to trick users into completion surveys and spamming their friends. It’s been a while since we haven’t seen the name of a celebrity being battered to push malware or scam people, but earlier or afterward it had to happen again.

This time, its American actress, pop singer and model, Lindsay Lohan, who scammers imagine in an adult tape leaked onto the Internet. Some post linked with this scam even entail that there were more than two protagonists in this uncomfortable homemade video. Spammed links take user to a Public Event on Face book, whose info reads: “Guys… don’t ask how I have this video. THIS IS ONLY BEING LEAKED ON FACEBOOK.”

A built-in abridged URL direct visitors to yet another Face book page, called “HD Video Player,” which has nothing to do with Lindsay Lohan. It seems that whoever started this scam mixed up the landing pages. It reads “Shocking McTruth, the most talked concerning video on the Internet. You’ll never believe this!!!” and is almost certainly planned for one of those “You will not at all eat again at McDonalds after seeing this” kind of scams.

Yet, the rumors of a tape featuring her being leaked on Face book emerge to reach Ms. Lohan’s ears.

According to celebrity gossip site TMZ, which claims to have asked her closest friends about it, the celebrity denied the survival of any such video.Fascinatingly enough, even though this scam has been going approximately for at least 24 hours, the landing page is still online. So much for Face book’s crack down on spam.

 

Justin Bieber Fans beleaguered via Online Scam

“Internet experts” are caution young Justin Bieber fans to be additional attentive after web fraudsters set up a scam tempting the singer’s devotee with the tempt of free gig tickets.

The infant hit-maker is recognized for his physically powerful online following and frequently keeps in touch with his faithful fans using social networking sites Twitter and Face book. However, an original scheme is targeting Bieber’s Face book friends with a link to a bogus free ticket giveaway for the star’s ongoing U.S. tour, with the words, “Wow! Justin Bieber is giving away free tickets now.”

Experts are worried many youngsters will be tricked into clicking on the link, which snare them into an online fraud, and they are urging Bieber fans to take care.A statement from online security firm Sophos reads, “This is a dirty rotten trick on youngsters.”

We’re alive! Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen and Adam Sandler amongst celebrity internet bereavement hoaxes

The Christmas season is supposed to bring with it joy and merriment.

But amongst the catalog of (real) celebrity engagements and other happy announcements over recent days, there have also been threads of celebrity death hoaxes circulate the more febrile corners of the World Wide Web. Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen, Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are among the list of stars to have been killed off in cyber space – with the whole reports claim they had disastrously died in snowboarding accidents.

Morgan Freeman and former pop star Aaron Carter have also been the subject of new online death rum ours.

Hollywood actor Wilson, 42, was reported to have died in a skiing accident today in a doubtfully posted article title ‘Global Associated News’.

The report claimed Wilson had snowboarded into a tree and died in Zermatt; Switzerland. It was then quickly picked up and approved around the net via social networking sites counting Twitter.

Another trick by the same website earlier claimed Charlie Sheen, 45, died on Boxing Day (December 26) after a snowboarding accident, also in Switzerland. ‘Sheen lost organize of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed,’ the false report claimed.

‘Sheen was air lifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the actor died right away from the crash of the crash,’ it added. His ex-wife Denise Richards tweeted to ‘kill off’ the hoax, so to speak, writing on Twitter: ‘The rumor about Charlie Sheen is not true. He is alive and on his way over to see his daughters.’

Earlier in the month, Morgan Freeman, 73, was killed off after Twitter user (@originalcjizzle) retweeted to a posting by news network CNN.It read: ‘@originalcjizzle tweeted: RT @CNN: Breaking News: actor Morgan Freeman has passed away in his Burbank home<< wow legendary actor #RIPmorganfreeman.Clearly, using the name of a legitimate new channel within the Twitter post succeeded in getting the fake death notice to go viral.CNN issued a strong response, tweeting: ‘CNN did not report Morgan Freeman death. Rumor is false. CNN will aggressively investigate this hoax. ‘Former pop star Aaron Carter was another victim of the Christmas weekend celebrity death hoax.

Twitter hysteria was caused when it was reported the 23-year-old had died of a drug overdose.

But putting the rumors to bed, Aaron tweeted: ‘This is the real Aaron Carter I know there’s a Hoax going Around, but I’m Here, Alive & Well. At the complex working on my mind & soul.’

 

Patrick Swayze’s death kicks off new spam campaign

The bereavement of actor Patrick Swayze has kicked off a new encircling of spam runs, according to refuge experts. Researchers with security firm F-Secure reported spotting spam messages on the theme just hours after news of Swayze’s death from pancreatic cancer first broke on news ropes. The attacks are supposed to use the method of search engine optimization (SEO) – loading web pages with reference to the actor’s name in hope of obtain a higher position in search engine results.

When a user does run a look for on Swayze and end up at the spam page, a pop-up inform the user of a malware “infection” and then display a pop-up image mimicking the Windows security screen. Users who are dupe by the fake security alert will then find their systems impure with a scoundrel antivirus device as well as a simple PHP script which logs the user’s country and city location. Researchers think that the information is being gathered for traffic analysis.

The use of current proceedings in spam runs has become a well-liked tactic for cybercriminals in new years. The assure of video and photos of hot news topics is often used to dupe user into allowing the fitting of malware, adware and phony security tools.Most lately, malware writers took advantage of the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to spread their unsavory wares.

In addition, spammers and malware distributors have increasingly made use of search engine optimization techniques to make attack sites more vulnerable and effective for bringing in victims.

Vanessa Hudgens meet FBI to thrash out nude snap hack

Exposed photos and videos of Vanessa Hudgens, the star of “High School Musical”, have surfaced on the net, with conjecture common that they have been released by a hacker who broke into the 22-year-old’s Gmail account. So far, so usual for saucy celebrity news.

But what’s dissimilar on this instance is that not only has Vanessa Hudgens report to have met law enforcement officers to discuss the crime, but as many as 50 other celebrity are said to have been under attack by a hacking gang dead set on stealing compromising snaps and information.

Other stars said to have been in the hackers’ sacking line include actress Scarlett Johansson, who is supposed to have had a nude image stolen from her iPhone. Rumors abound that the hacking gangs have been touting the risqué+ photos and videos to websites, but might bigheaded about their online exploit have been their undoing?

It seems too much of a coincidence to me to believe that these latest reports are not associated in some way to the German inquiry that we wrote about late last year, where two hackers were accused of contravention into the accounts of over 50 pop stars, including Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, and Justin Timberlake.

In that case, prosecutors claim that the hacker’s impure computers with malware in arrange to take celebrities’ credit cards details, private pictures, emails and unreleased songs.

Celebrities are only human (well, some of them.. probably not Lady Gaga) and are just as able of lousy computer security as the rest of us. Just because they are in the public eye, however, does not give anybody the right to look through their private infrastructure, take foolishly stored naked pictures from their phones, or break into their computers.

So, here’s what you should do (aside from the usual advice of running up-to-date anti-virus software, installing security patches and taking care about what programs you run on your computer):

1. Make sure that you are using a hard-to-crack, non-dictionary word for your code word and never use the same password for multiple accounts. If you haven’t already done so – make sure you read about the top 50 passwords you should never use.

2. Take care about the “secret questions” that some websites ask you to answer in case you ever forget your password. That’s how people like Sarah Palin were caught out – as it was simple for hackers to guess her answers.

3. Make sure that you have changed the PIN code on your phone’s voicemail. Too many people leave that as the default, opening up opportunities for strangers to listen to what should be private messages.

RIP Jackie Chan trick takes on Twitter users

Twitter users are being bombarded with post signifying that Jackie Chan has met his disastrous end.

For the last quite a few hours “RIP Jackie Chan” has been a trending subject, with many people serving the spammers extend their post. It appears to be a makeshift shot to use Twitter user to increase the SEO of some spammy websites.

While the URLs have been changing approximately, they are all clearly trash once you reach your destination and there is no additional effort to induce you that something horrifying has happened to Mr. Chan.

Jackie Chan It appears the complete idea that Jackie Chan is no more ongoing out as a small piece of a joke. The two primary spam bots that appear to be tweeting it out now probable chosen it up from a celebrity else’s feed.

There is a large amount of spam bots concerned in this scheme, and by selecting the words “RIP Jackie Chan” they’ve made it popular enough for it to become a trending topic.

If you look at the screenshot, you can see that the spam bots are integrating several other trending topics of the moment, such as #honestly.I anticipate Twitter is functioning on shutting down all of these spam bots, but in the intervening time don’t click any of these links. While they are non-malicious at the instant, this could alter at any time.

Update: Jackie Chan’s team has posted significance to his Face book wall assuring fans that he is fine and preparing for his next film.