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Fake Virgin Blue Itinerary Email Soars with Malware

Dec

2012

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network detected a slew of fake Virgin Blue Itinerary emails. The email contains a malicious zip attachment called Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.zip, which contains the malicious binary file Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.XXXXX.exe. When clicked, the binary copies itself as svchost.exe in the c:\Documents and Settings\All Users directory and then adds a run registry key to run the […]

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‘Jacked frost’ Facebook scam goes wild and doubles over the weekend

Dec

2012

Last week we wrote a blog about a specific Facebook scam that appeared to spread rather aggresively. We have decided to nickname the scam "Jacked Frost." The Websense® ThreatSeeker™ network detected that the scam has increased and multiplied over the weekend – particularly on Saturday where we saw the amount of unique URLs related to this scam double. This shows how cyber crooks time […]

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When less is more: the growing impact of low-volume email attacks

Oct

2012

Here at Websense® Security Labs, we often blog about big malicious campaigns and how our products protect our customers from them. But what about smaller campaigns that are no less dangerous? Broad campaigns often spoof notifications from well-known businesses, establishments, organizations, and agencies, and are very widespread these days. However, smaller volume campaigns sometimes can be as (or even more) dangerous by […]

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