Posts Tagged ‘message body’

The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence

May

2013

For that past several days, Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing hexadecimal obfuscated URLs. Hexadecimal character codes are simply the hexadecimal number to letter representation for the ASCII character set. To a computer, hexadecimal is just one out of the many systems for address expressions on the Internet.The following samples are different […]

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Boston Marathon Bombing Used in Malicious Spam Campaign

Apr

2013

On the afternoon of April 15, 2013, just when many people were on the cusp of conquering another personal milestone by completing the Boston Marathon, they were hit hard by an act of cowardice. Two bombs struck near the finish line of the Marathon on Monday. Within hours of the bomb blast, large malware-laden spam emails started doing […]

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Email Threats Highlights: US Airways and American Airlines Spam

Feb

2013

Our researchers in the AV Labs found the following malicious spam campaigns related to airline flights that we’re highlighting this week: ‘Preferred Seat Order’ leads to malware infection. Patrons of American Airlines (AA) were targetted by online criminals via a surge of spam claiming to be “preferred seat order” email notifications. Image and text links on the message […]

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The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence

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