Posts Tagged ‘curious users’

Spammers Bless New Pope with Spam

Mar

2013

With the amount of media coverage surrounding this year’s papal conclave and inauguration, it’s hardly a surprise that cybercriminals have taken advantage of this event to victimize users. We recently spotted spam that use newly-elected Pope Francis as the subject.These email messages use the new pope and controversies surrounding the Catholic Church to pique the […]

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Spoofed WebEx, PayPal Emails Lead to Rogue Flash Update

Oct

2012

Without verifying its legitimacy, users who may be anticipating a WebEx conference are at risk of downloading variants of a notorious info stealing malware.Last week, we received two spoofed emails that redirect users to a fake Adobe Flash Player update. These messages use different approaches to lure users into downloading the malicious file update_flash_player.exe (detected […]

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Spammed Messages Cash In on London 2012 Olympics

Jun

2012

Cybercriminals are known opportunists. They will take advantage of anything newsworthy and craft their schemes around (for example) sporting events like FIFA and the Olympics. As the London 2012 Olympics opening event draws near, we can expect a surge of spammed messages that leverage this event. Below are some spammed messages we’ve spotted using the […]

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