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05/22/2014 - The activists’ campaign started only a few days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was cited to have said “We’ll eradicate Twitter […] I don’t care what the international community says.” [http://time.com/32339/turkey-erdogan-twitter/] All due respect for the motivation to overcome nation-state internet censorship, but the method using “infected computers” is questionable.

04/16/2013 - A primed browser extension works in the background every time a website is opened, almost without the user noticing. The unaware users see mysterious "likes" in their personal accounts, but where they have come from remains obscure to many at first. Experts at G Data SecurityLabs have been taking a close look at this issue and explain the sophisticated ploy using the example of the Google Chrome...

09/14/2012 - For some days, G Data Security Labs have been observing a campaign on Facebook that is trying to infect as many Facebook users as possible with malware. Messages that contain nothing but a hyperlink to file hosting service Sendspace are sent to the users' contacts.

06/06/2012 - Most attacks carried out and malware produced have an economic background - someone wants to earn money with it. Advertising networks are a popular way to gain money quite easily without necessarily harming the user, at least not directly. In this current case, we have discovered a sophisticated approach which suggests that this kind of attack really must be worthwhile!

01/30/2012 - Another famous German consumer electronic retailer has to warn its customers against the free gift card spam attack. The G Data SecurityLabs discovered new websites, which allegedly promote the second half of the Media-Saturn Holding.

01/26/2012 - One of Europe’s most famous electronic goods retailers launched its first online shop just recently, on 16 January 2012. Cyber criminals take this opportunity to spread messages with fake gift card announcements as bait via Facebook!

11/04/2011 - Is Anonymous going to attack Facebook and the Mexican Zetas tomorrow? Recently, there have been a lot of reports and news about Anonymous – and especially many rumors!