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Money Transfer Spam Campaign with HTML Attachment

Feb

2013

Phishers love to arouse curiosity and/or fear in the user’s mind and this stimulus can compel people to set aside all caution as well as any safety measures they might have in place to avoid such scams.In a recent spam sample seen in our probe network, we observed that by taking advantage of human curiosity, […]

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Blackhole malware attack poses as rejected wire transfer email

Jul

2012

SophosLabs is intercepting a wave of malicious emails that have been spammed out around the world, luring unsuspecting internet users into clicking on a malicious attachment.The emails all claim to be related to a rejected wire transfer. Although most savvy computer users would realise that unsolicited email is unlikely to be legitimate, there are some […]

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Cutwail Drives Spike in Malicious HTML Attachment Spam

Feb

2012

Over the past month, we have observed several large spam campaigns with malicious HTML attachments. We believe the botnet behind these campaigns is Cutwail. Here is data we collected, starting from the first day of 2012, illustrating spikes of spam with malicious HTML attachments: Attaching an HTML file to an email is a tactic we […]

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