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It’s VKontakte, *not* Vikontakte. Twitter phishing, Soviet-style

Graham Cluley @ 3:53 pm, May 22, 2013

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With a cybercrime plan as poorly thought out as this, maybe it’s no wonder the Soviet Union didn’t survive.

Read more in my article on Sophos’s Naked Security blog.

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• Naked Security
• Phishing
• Twitter

• #Soviet Union
• #Vikontakte
• #Vkontakte

Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and hosts the popular "Smashing Security" podcast. Follow him on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Mastodon, or drop him an email.

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