{"id":24565,"date":"2011-11-22T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=24565"},"modified":"2011-11-22T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:31:07","slug":"cybercriminals-targeting-twilight-fans-searching-info-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/cybercriminals-targeting-twilight-fans-searching-info-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Targeting Twilight Fans Searching Info Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Norton, with Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 coming to theaters soon, Cybercriminals are exploiting the fact that many will do online search related to the Twilight movie. So, be careful when you do a search for it. Read on to see what are the common ways the cybercriminals perform their crimes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Curious \u201cTwilight\u201d Enthusiasts a Target for Cybercriminals<\/h2>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Norton Data Finds \u201cTwilight\u201d Web Searches May Result In a \u201cKiss of Death\u201d<\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Singapore, 21 November 2011 \u2013<\/strong> The next film in the popular \u201cTwilight\u201d series is bound for box office success, and \u201cTwihards\u201d everywhere are on the prowl for any details they can find online about \u201cTwilight: Breaking Dawn \u2013 Part 1.\u201d Savvy cybercriminals know curiosity may overcome caution when it comes to the supernatural series.<\/p>\n<p>Norton has already found that many common searches related to the movie are returning malicious results. When clicked, these \u201cpoisoned\u201d links can automatically put viruses, keylogging programs (where criminals can monitor everything you type), and other nasty infected software on your smartphone, computer or tablet that can cause endless days of trouble, not to mention leaving your bank account as drained as a vampire\u2019s victim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/cybercriminals-targeting-twilight-fans-searching-info-online\/image001-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?fit=540%2C113&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,113\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?fit=300%2C62&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?fit=540%2C113&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24566\" title=\"image001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?resize=540%2C113\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/image001.jpg?resize=300%2C62&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common searches that are turning up poisoned results tend to be for photos, trailers, clips, casting information and plot details on the series.<\/p>\n<p>Top search terms that we\u2019ve already seen returning poisoned results include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNude pictures of Taylor Lautner\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRobert and Kristin kissing\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTwilight true love\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Norton has seen a spike in these poisoned search results with the impending release of the movie, and expects even more \u201cTwilight\u201d-related poison search results, scams and spam as the curiosity continues to peak.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips from Norton on how users can protect themselves from \u201cTwilight\u201d-related threats online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stay away from sensational strangers <\/strong>\u2013 Cybercriminals use sensational wording to get you to click on their poisoned links. Don\u2019t assume the best of a stranger &#8211; better to delete emails and ignore search results from people and sites you\u2019ve never heard of.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t leave your neck exposed<\/strong> &#8211; Reputable online security software will identify malicious links and protect against other unseen threats.\u00a0 Use <a href=\"http:\/\/sg.norton.com\/360\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norton 360<\/a> to surf online without interruption and to make sure sites don\u2019t contain any malicious elements before you click on them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch out for (were)wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 When it comes to search term results, it can be hard to tell friend from foe. Use a tool such as <a href=\"http:\/\/safeweb.norton.com\/lite\" target=\"_blank\">Norton Safe Web Lite<\/a> to make sure sites aren\u2019t poisoned before clicking on them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>For more information on how to stay safe online, please visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sg.norton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/sg.norton.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ad#img]<br \/>\n[ad#boxlist]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Norton, with Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 coming to theaters soon, Cybercriminals are exploiting the fact that many will do online search..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[6915,6870,6916,590,1634,6914],"class_list":["post-24565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-techie","tag-crime","tag-cybercriminal","tag-exploit","tag-norton","tag-search","tag-twilight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-6od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24568,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions\/24568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}