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Trojan Disguised as Trend Micro Component Drops Bitcoin-Mining Malware

Dec

2012

Malware writers have devised lots of social engineering tactics to lure users into their scheme. This time around, we saw a Trojan passing itself off as a Trend Micro component as a way to trick users into downloading and executing it.We recently encountered a file and noticed the following properties (see below). For the untrained […]

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Threats Get Trickier with Versatility and Social Engineering

Sep

2012

Cybercriminals intending to take your data find various ways through social engineering. For example, in our investigation of what seemed to be a run-of-the mill spam run leading to a pharma site, we’ve uncovered the same points we have raised in our eguide, How Social Engineering Works. The spam run starts as an email notification […]

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What Has Become of Spam?

Oct

2011

Spammers have moved into new fields like social media (e.g., Facebook and Twitter). Like mass-mailing attacks, social media spam runs are triggered by the same motivation. Businesses that use social media can come across Web threats in the course of marketing and promotion. Social media spam may also cause system infections through employees who access social networking sites at work.Spam have come a long […]

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