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Internet Explorer Zero-day Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1347)

07

May

2013

A new vulnerability found in Microsoft Internet Explorer affects Internet Explorer version 8. The vulnerability allows attackers to execute code on a machine by just having the user visit a malicious website. This can happen, for example, when the user is tricked into clicking a link in an email or via compromised legitimate websites, such […]

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News Of Hugo Chavez’s Death Used in Malicious Email Campaigns

11

Mar

2013

Following news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (as reported by the BBC) the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has identified several malicious email campaigns that make reference to the President's death. Malware authors are increasingly using breaking global news events as a means of propagating lures that lead to malware. Here is a screenshot […]

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Can’t Sleep? Let’s Count a Typosquat Hive

30

Jan

2013

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® network has uncovered a typosquat hive hosting hundreds of hosts targeting well-known brands. This hive constantly moves around to evade detection. Numerous popular brands are being abused – can you spot the difference between these scam URLs and the real ones? Upon further analysis we discovered a connection between those hosts: Most […]

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