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Over the weekend, a lot of Facebook users started receiving malicious chat messages from their friends that looked like this:

“Father crashes and dies because of THIS message posted on his daughters profile wall!” – followed by a shortened URL (using the bit.ly URL shortening services). The missing apostrophe in the word “daughter’s” – i.e. “daughter’s profile wall” – could be a clue that the message is not genuine, or at least that the author is not a native English speaker, but let’s take a look at what would happen to a user who falls for this social engineering trick.

As was predicted by many, email scams soliciting donations for Japan are appearing in user’s inboxes. We took a closer look at one of these messages and identified the following details:

Kaspersky Lab has detected a malicious spam campaign using the recent earthquake in Japan to infect users. These emails contain malicious URLs:

In this episode of Lab Matters, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Tim Armstrong joins Ryan Naraine to examine the security posture of the Android mobile operating system. Armstrong looks at strengths and weaknesses of the open-source platform and warns about the risks associated with jailbreaking/rooting Android devices.