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Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email

Feb

2013

A malware campaign has been spammed out widely, seemingly taking advantage of an important date in the US tax system’s calendar.January 31st is the deadline for US employers to deliver the W-2 form to all of their workers, used to help calculate the total wages earned by an individual during the course of the year.So, […]

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Beware Adobe Software Upgrade Notification – malware attached!

Dec

2011

Cybercriminals have widely spammed out a malware attack posing as upgrades for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe X Suite Advanced. The emails, which pretend to come from Adobe, have a ZIP file attached which contains a version of the Zeus Trojan horse, designed to steal banking information from compromised computers. The risk is that less […]

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Tsunami backdoor for Mac OS X discovered

Oct

2011

OSX/Tsunami-A, a new backdoor Trojan horse for Mac OS X, has been discovered. What makes Tsunami particularly interesting is that it appears to be a port of Troj/Kaiten, a Linux backdoor Trojan horse that once it has embedded itself on a computer system listens to an IRC channel for further instructions. Typically code like this […]

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Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email

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