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Sophos researcher Graham Cluley, who blogged about the attack, writes, "If you click on the thumbnail, you don't view a video at all but instead are taken to a Facebook application," which tries to get each victim to download a video player that's actually an application that will install the Hotbar adware "to generate revenue for the bad guys."
Facebook users warned of sexy 'Candid Camera Prank' attack 2010
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Security firms are warning Facebook users to beware of what's being called the "Candid Camera Prank" attack recently spotted on Facebook that tries to use the lure of a sexy video of a scantily clad woman on a bicycle to download a video player that's actually Hotbar adware, and maybe worse.
Facebook users warned of sexy 'Candid Camera Prank' attack 2010
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Web users taken in by the scam will wind up downloading browser software contaminated with the Hotbar toolbar from Pinball Corp, formerly Zango.
The Register 2010
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The startup is led by co-founder and Marketing VP Yaniv Bar-Lev, who was VP at Fixya and has a Hotbar/Zango background.
alarm:clock 2010
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The software bombards marks with irksome pop-up ads while also further slowing performance by loading the Hotbar weather application in the system tray. here, reckons that the ruse is more likely the brainchild of a rogue Pinball agent rather than the firm itself.
The Register 2010
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According to a warning put out by eSoft, the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed to users via a fake but convincing Firefox update page.
Techworld.com News 2010
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One Billion Downloads and Counting W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices Phony Firefox update comes with Hotbar adware - Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake Firefox download site.
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The startup is led by co-founder and Marketing VP Yaniv Bar-Lev, who was VP at Fixya and has a Hotbar/Zango background.
alarm:clock 2010
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According to a warning put out by eSoft, the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed to users via a fake but convincing Firefox update page.
ARN News 2010
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Phony Firefox update comes with Hotbar adware - Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake Firefox download site.
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