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By: Jason Ding, Research Scientist

"I can play Angry Birds Bad Piggies and all the other Angry Birds games for free!" But when our Barracuda Labs team took a look at these games we noticed several questionable items. 7 of these plugins are from the same source www.playook.info, a maker of 'free' flash games. A quick glance at the Whois records for playook.info tells us... nothing. They hide their name behind Whoisguard, a very suspcious thing for a business to do...    read more

The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business
Continues the "maliciousness in Alexa top-ranked domains" work. Includes new measurements & new discoveries.
"Adding Game" on Facebook? - Is it a real game or a potential spamming trick?
Facebook's “Adding Game” seems really harmless at first, but first impressions are often deceiving!
When good websites go bad!
Maliciousness in Top-ranked Alexa Domains.
HST ranking system measures popular security topics in security industry
What's hot at the RSA conference and subsequently in information security.
Visit www.ProfileProtector.com
Web Data - Statistics relating to Web sites and the types of malware attacking them.
Web Filter Statistics (24 hour) Blocked Top Visited Sites Today
SPAM Data - Statistics relating to malware spread by email and how the types have changed over time.
Email Processed Yesterday Top Malware Blocked
1.Trojan.Vundo608
2.Adware.Toolbar.MySearch.MyWebSearch256
3.Adware.LSP.NewDotNet.FirstLook255
4.Trojan.Win32.Zbot.gen226
5.Tracker.DivX216
6.Adware.180Solutions.Zango188
7.Adware.Toolbar.Mysearch.Myway185
8.W32.Gaut.A183
9.AdWare.Win32.Agent.bjx106
10.Adware.Casalemedia104
Twitter Data - Statistics relating to Twitter accounts.
Accounts % growth by Month Accounts Deleted by Month (%)
 

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