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Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc
DANCHO DANCHEV - blog ^ | MONDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2009 | Dancho Danchev

Posted on 12/11/2009 3:32:36 PM PST by Cindy

MONDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2009 Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc

UPDATE: Docstoc has removed all the participating accounts in this campaign, and is applying additional filtering to undermine its effectiveness.

Last week's "Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc and Scribd" is now exclusively targeting the popular Docstoc document-sharing service. Naturally, this very latest campaign once again offers overwhelming evidence on the inner workings of the cybercrime ecosystem, in this particular case, the connection between the Koobface gang and money mule recruitment campaigns.

(Excerpt) Read more at ddanchev.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Reference
KEYWORDS: cybercrime; docstoc; internet; scareware; scribd

1 posted on 12/11/2009 3:32:37 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Was your post in English?


2 posted on 12/11/2009 5:16:38 PM PST by dangerdoc
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