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Convincing UPS Email Scam Delivers Backdoor

28

Aug

2013

By now, most users can easily detect spammed messages, particularly those that attempt (and fail) at looking like legitimate notifications. However, some can look convincing, which is why a good social engineering education can be beneficial in the long run. We recently found an email sample pretending to be from the courier service UPS. The […]

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Spamdroid: Stock, Financial, and Pharmaceutical Spam Appears to Come from Android Devices

06

Jul

2012

Over the last few days, we have seen reports of an Android botnet hijacking mail clients on Android devices and sending spam promoting stocks, finance, and pharmaceuticals. While an Android botnet is a possible culprit, other scenarios are more likely-such as spam originating from compromised computers.To begin, here is a sample of a spam email […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

04

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

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