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Follow on Google News | Man Of Steel, Fast And Furious 6 Among Online Fraudsters` Most Used LuresSummer movies are highly anticipated by the moviegoers, because Hollywood traditionally releases its biggest blockbusters during this season.
By: dubaicityinfo.com Summer movies are highly anticipated by the moviegoers, because Hollywood traditionally releases its biggest blockbusters during this season. Fraudsters are relentless in creating fake streaming sites, not just on the screening date of these movies, but also before the release of movies in theaters. The next two charts show which movies are most popular with attackers, as well as where these fake sites are hosted. For details visit http://www.dubaicityinfo.com How do these scams work? Cybercriminals want to lead users to download video players or sign up for streaming sites via affiliate links. Alternately, they may want to lead users to more traditional survey scams. The attackers use various social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Youtube, LinkedIn, and many others to drive users to the fake streaming pages. These are hosted on blogging services like Tumblr, WordPress, and Blogger. Most pages on these blogs have shortened URLs that lead to the final sites we talked about earlier. Because they used the services of URL shorteners, we were able to view the number of visits per selected movie. It appears that Man of Steel, Fast and the Furious 6 and Iron Man 3 got the highest number of viewers. This data is for a two-month period from late April up to the end of June. To lure in users, attackers use key phrases like “watch movie title online” Many of the common keywords used are what you’d expect: “watch”, “online”, “free”, etcetera. One of the more surprising keywords is “putlocker”, which refers to a UK-based file locker. In terms of countries involved, while the United States accounts for more than two-thirds of the traffic to these sites, other countries were also represented. Users are advised to stream and subscribe to legitimate sites and not from these fake streaming sites. Be wary of sharing posts and clicking links that could propagate these scams. In addition, there might be no such thing as online streaming or movie download except for pirated copies, which in itself can be risky. Figure 1. Commonly used summer movie titles Figure 2. Popular hosts for fake streaming sites Figure 3. Fake streaming sites infection chain Figure 4. Total page views of fake streaming sites (per movie titles) Information on Abu Dhabi Jobs, News, Events, Maps, Hotels, Tours, Shopping in Abu Dhabi http://www.abudhabicityinfo.com Book Dubai Desert Safari Tours & HOliday Packages at best and affordable rates http://www.simple2book.com End
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