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419 Scammers Eye ICC Champions Trophy 2013

Jun

2013

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy 2013 is currently being held in England and Wales. The group matches are already in progress and the grand finale will be held on June 23. In the past, Symantec observed various spam emails targeting the ICC World T20 and the Cricket World Cup. As expected, we have […]

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Compromised Japanese Sites Lead to Malware

Jun

2013

When it comes to cybercriminal targets, it truly is a popularity contest. Multiple sites were found compromised, including those popular with Japanese users. There were 40 compromised domains identified using feedback provided by Trend Micro Deep Discovery; since yesterday almost 60,000 hits have been recorded on these sites.One of the compromised sites contains an obfuscated […]

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New Uyghur and Tibetan Themed Attacks Using PDF Exploits

Mar

2013

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”. Previously, […]

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