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Websense® Security Labs™ researchers, using our Websense ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud, recently noticed an increased use of custom-generated attachment file names, and some use of password-protected ZIP files. Emails with banking/financial themes are being sent with executables packed in ZIP files, with file names matching the intended recipient. When the attachment runs on a victim's computer, a Trojan from the Zbot P2P family […]

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Sometimes the “other side” uses a neat trick that seems so obvious. In these cases we think “they must have done this before” – then we search the archives (Google) for proof that it has indeed been used before. A good example is our post from last year where we documented the abuse of the […]

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