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Spam campaign slanders Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas

Aug

2012

Spammers are trying to capitalize on the excitement surrounding the gold medal performance of the United States women’s gymnastic team by manufacturing a controversy where none exists, hoping that curious Olympics fans will rush into their trap.The trap is an email message accusing team member Gabrielle Douglas of using a banned substance.(click for full size […]

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SpyEye living up to its name

May

2012

Recently, we came across an interesting SpyEye build. It uses well-known spying capabilities of SpyEye like a form grabber, a screenshot sender and an RDP server which allows the criminals to fully remote control the victim’s computer. But it also contains a new plugin called "flashcamcontrol". Using this plugin, the Trojan is able to stream […]

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Flash malware that could fit a Twitter message

Jun

2011

When analysing malware you are most likely to encounter samples which use all kinds of obfuscation in order to hide from antivirus software that protects your computer. This is also true for malware written in flash (more specifically, ActionScript). Flash is very popular among malware writers these days because many people use it on daily […]

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