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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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On March 4th we spotted a large number of unusual emails being blocked by our Linux Mail Security product. The emails all contained the same PDF attachment (MD5: 97b720519aefa00da58026f03d818251) but were being sent from many different source addresses. The emails were written in German and most were sent from German IP addresses. Below is a […]

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SophosLabs is intercepting a widespread criminal campaign to infect innocent users’ computers. The attack has been spammed out widely, pretending to be an email containing a scan from an HP OfficeJet printer. The precise wording used in the dangerous emails’ subject lines, message body and attachment names can vary – but here are some examples: […]

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