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Lady Gaga Fell into Twitter Scam

If you observe any posts on Twitter with a link to a “Banned Lady Gaga Video,” anything you do, DO NOT CLICKS ON IT. The Face book Scam Spam trend is dispersal across Twitter claiming the Twitter queen herself Lady Gaga.

The tweets are spreading through a rogue request that thousands of Twitter users have linked with. The tweet promises a link to a “banned” Lady Gaga video, which any true Monster knows does not exist. Once you click on the bit.ly link, you are taken to a fake YouTube page and when you click the play push button a box pops up asking you to funding permission to a third-party app to access your Twitter account. Don’t do it! If you do, the third-party app will have access to your account and be able to send tweets to all of your followers.

Though Lady Gaga fell for the scam she has managed to delete all the unsanctioned tweets. However, Sophos tracked the tweets down. Here’s what was tweeted:

“TAROT de shakira [LINK] clarividente de @shakira #horoscopo ganar dinero navegando.”

“VIDEO PROHIBIDO LADY GAGA @lady gaga [LINK] ganar dinero navegando.”

Lady Gaga issued a Twitter caution to whoever is at the back the app, threatening to unleash her Little Monsters on them. But it looks like the damage was already done. Fooling Lady Gaga is a huge coo for the rogue app considering Lady Gaga has 9.6 million followers, making her the most followed Twitter feed in the world at the time of this writing. With that kind of influence, you can only visualize how many victims this app has already claimed.

Lindsay Lohan Fake Death News

An additional celebrity to connect the “greatly exaggerated” death rumors list is “Herbie: Fully Loaded” actor Lindsay Lohan. Yesterday, the information site and encyclopedia Wikipedia page of Lindsay Lohan abruptly read the death date of the actress as July 14, 2010. The exposure of such news in one of the trusted sources surprised Lindsay Lohan fans and set the whole internet abuzz with rumors. The Lindsay Lohan fans were penetrating for the answers concerning the authenticity of the news.

The Wikipedia page of Lindsay Lohan read that the actress was active in entertainment from 1996 to 2010 and did not specify the cause of her death. The rumor was increase by one of the users who edit the supposed page of Wikipedia. The Wikipedia officials said that yesterday morning about 3 1/2 hours the Lindsay Lohan page was edited by the users and the officials blocked one of the users from editing the articles as the user’s account was being used only for “vandalism”. However, later the officials of Wikipedia distorted the details.

A celebrity blog reported that as there was no authentic update about the “Mean Girls” actress’ death, it was proved to be a rumor, a prank played by someone. The rumor of Lindsay Lohan’s death spread as a wild fire and in other social networking sites also users commented about her death. Even on the reputed web portals, video tribute for the troubled actress began appearing.

Another website reported that Lindsay Lohan died of drug overdose which is absolutely not true. The celebrities along with their fame earn their haters who try to harm their reputation by spreading these kinds of malicious rumors which are not only derogatory, but also condemnable.

Depiction of teenage brain box Emma Watson Death Scam

Emma Watson, known around the world for her depiction of teenage brain box Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has become the unsuspecting star of an internet hoax that is being spread rapidly across the internet.

The bogus reports declare that the actress has died in a drunken car crash.

Here is a typical report:

On July 24, 2009, Watson was en route to her mansion in Oxfordshire, England. Police footage captured her driving with speeds up to 80 miles per hour on very narrow roads. Oxfordshire paramedics received a 999 call at 12:22 p.m. (GMT), about an sport car having crashed into a wall at a petrol station.

At this point it was still unknown that the victim was indeed Emma Watson. Three minutes after the call got through, paramedics arrived at Watson’s location.

She was reportedly not breathing and the car was total loss. After 5 minutes the Oxfordshire Fire Department managed to get Watson out of her car. Resuscitation efforts continued en route to the Oxfordshire’s Medical Center, and for an hour after arriving there at 1:45 p.m. (GMT). She was pronounced dead at 2:10 p.m. (GMT).

Another version of the story reads:

Los Angeles, CA- Millions are in shock after Emma Watson died overnight in a car crash. The 19 year-old actress, most famous for her roles in the Harry Potter films, was killed while being driven back to hotel after a screening of her latest movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when a car collided with her vehicle. Watson is reported to have died at the scene. Her relatives have so far refused to comment, only quoting that they are “˜too distraught’ to speak with the media. Police are questioning witnesses about two men who reportedly fled the scene following the crash.

The two men are said to be in their early twenties, one Caucasian and the other Hispanic. Anyone with information is urged to contact the authorities immediately.

Unhappily a lot of people seem to be forwarding or reposting the “news”, without scrutiny a credible news site. Don’t you think that if it was true it would be on the front page of BBC News Online? I would advise you keep away from clicking on links to “news” stories about Emma Watson’s death, as it is probable whoever is behind this hoax has spiteful intention.

Of course, Emma Watson is far from the first celebrity to have had fake reports of her death circulated via the internet. Recently, bogus news stories increase that Jeff Goldblum had fallen to his death while filming – bizarrely from the very same cliff that previously claimed Tom Cruise’s life!

Internet fraudsters assert celebrities have died in plane crash in latest Trojan virus assault

Now a days an unauthorized persons are hacking easily around social networking by the way of celebrity names Internet fraudsters are with hoax stories about the death of major celebrities to put in viruses on thousands of people’s computers.

Scammers are conveyance emails contain links which claim that people like Beyonce, Tom Cruise or Tiger Woods have died in a plane or car crash. One ordinary email claims that the named celebrity has died along with 34 other people when their plane crashed into a mountainside while forthcoming the airport. Recipients are asked to open an attachment for further details. But when the user clicks on the link a Trojan computer virus is installed on their computer which can then give the virus’ creator complete remote control of their machine.

According to internet security firm Symantec there has been a sharp rise in Trojan.Zbot infection since the start of August.The firm is considering around 80,000 – 100,000 infections each day using a diversity of different scams. The Zeus Trojan has been lively for the past year and is used by fraudsters to steal information together with logins and passwords which are stored on the user’s PC.

The fraudster can then use the PC owner’s logins and passwords to search bank accounts or imply harvest the details and sell them onto other fraudsters via underground servers Con Mallon, Norton Internet Security Expert, said: eventually your PC become a bot and therefore falls beneath the control of the ‘bot master’.

This person or persons can then send commands to your machine. ‘For example one thing we have notice that it can do is to remove your ‘cookies’ meaning the next time you log into a web site you have to enter in the login and password and Zeus can monitor this and then send this information to a remote server.’ The Zeus Trojan is even able to put in extra fields to otherwise safe web pages. This could be used to add a ‘false’ field that requisite you to type in your national security number when you are doing internet banking.

Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman Secret Scams…

Want to see naked pictures of your favorite Hollywood actresses? It could cost you an expensive trip to your local computer repair shop if you do.

Fake email claiming to offer nude photographs of Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Milla Jovovich and pixilated videogame babe Lara Croft are behind 80 per cent of computer viruses last month, according to experts. For, though claiming to contain shocking pictures of female celebrities, the emails, once opened, install a malicious root kit.”These emails are masked as pornographic content, tempting the unwary into opening a file on their Windows computer which will install a root kit and download further malicious code from the internet,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.

“This kind of social engineering trick is nothing new – in fact it has been used so often by cybercriminals that it from time to time feels like it’s been around since the days of the silent movies.”However, that hasn’t stopped it from being an effective way to fool many people into running code designed to allow hackers to break into computers. IT security and control firm Sophos is influence computer users to think before opening unsolicited email attachments following the widespread spam campaign.

The emails, which typically have an attached, file called amazing.zip or shocking.zip.

Mr. Cluley said: “The best way to defend you is to practice safe computing. That means not only running an up-to-date anti-virus, security patches and firewall – but also exercising caution over what programs you decide to run on your computer.”You should always think twice before opening a file that unexpectedly arrives in your email inbox.”

“Root kits are software frequently used by third parties – usually a hacker – to hide other software and processes using advanced stealth techniques.”Malicious code, such as spyware and key loggers, can be invisibly cloaked from detection by conventional security products or the operating system making them hard to detect.”Hackers use root kit technology to maintain access to a compromised computer without the user’s knowledge, so it’s important to be properly defended from these sort of threats.”

If you receive an e-mail (even from a friend) with an attachment promising video of starlets like Angelina Jolie or Natalie Portman wearing nothing but their pride, do yourself a favor and don’t open it: It’s a virus. Amazingly, 80 percent of reported computer infections last month came from this single source. The e-mails contain a message along the lines of, “Shocking video of nude Angelina Jolie,” and carry a single attachment named either amazing.zip or shocking.zip. The attachment purports to contain the titillating peep show, but what it actually includes is a piece of malicious software called a rootkit.

A root kit is basically computer code that installs itself in a protected area on your machine’s hard drive. Once there, it’s very difficult to detect and remove. Frighteningly, it can do just about anything it wants, including monitoring anything you type on your keyboard, rifling through your files for confidential information, participating in attacks against other computers and, of course, e-mailing itself to all of your contacts.Sending your friends a virus is no way to win their admiration, but sending them a virus that proves you’re the sort of person who would open an attachment like shocking.zip, well, that could do some serious long-term harm to your social status.

If you suspect your computer is infected with a virus, or you’d like to know how to spot the threats currently spreading themselves over the Internet, anti-virus software maker McAffe is a great resource. Granted, this a company trying to sell you a product, but its site offers free information on current viruses and free tools for removing some of the more sinister ones.

Face book comment-jacking? OMG! I can’t believe JUSTIN Bieber did THIS to a girl

It’s preliminary to appear like Face book can’t win next to those who wish to use their overhaul to scam, spam and just cause difficulty. Over the last day or so, a new kind of assault has been dispersal using the phrase “OMG! I can’t believe JUSTIN Bieber did THIS to a girl”.

It leads to a page asking you to confirm a simple math problem to “prevent bots from slowing down the site”. In actuality, it is another click jack-type scheme in which you are asked to type the answer into a box. It doesn’t matter what you type, because it’s a social engineering trick. What you are actually typing is a comment that is used to share the link with your friends on Facebook. You can see the tooltip that says “Add a Comment” in the screenshot.

This bypasses Face book’s recent attempt at detecting likejacking fraud. Links you comment on are not using the same mechanisms that Facebook is monitoring when you click “Like”. Many moons ago, the first Facebook attacks started with illegitimate applications asking for permission to access your wall and spread their messages by spamming your friends through wall posts. While this worked well, it was a bit easy for Facebook to track down and remove the bogus apps.

Early in 2010 we saw the first attempts at like jacking. This technique involves layering one image over the top of a Like button and tricking the victim into clicking something that appears to play a video or a continue button, when in fact they are clicking the Like button hidden underneath. More recently we have seen the attackers trying lots of new techniques. In the past few months we have seen them tagging people in photos they are not in to get you to click, inviting people to fake events and even making you an administrator of a Facebook page that isn’t yours.

While protecting yourself may not be as simple as not clicking anything that says “OMG!” that isn’t a bad start. Be skeptical, understand that messages from your friends may not in fact have been sent to you willingly, and if you are really tempted to click, take a short timeout to conduct a Google/Bing search.As of the time of this writing some of the YouTube videos this scam leads to have been removed by YouTube. However, one video that is still working has over 525,000,000 views since February and thousands of comments in the last 24 hours — in other words, since this Facebook scam has been making the rounds.

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.

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.

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.