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The Current State of the Blackhole Exploit Kit

01

Aug

2013

The Blackhole Exploit Kit is one of the most notorious exploit kits currently in circulation among the cybercriminal underground today. Thus, we continuously monitor for incidents and attacks involving the exploit kit itself.Last week we reported about the spam campaign leveraging the birth of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s son. Our analysis of the campaign […]

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Iranian firefighters’ website compromised to serve VertexNet RAT

01

Nov

2012

Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network, we have detected that an Iranian website has been compromised to serve a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called VertexNet. This website does not have a high Alexa rank, but is one of a few cases which has caught our attention. The targeted website (reachable at the URL: hxxp://www.sarifire.ir) seems to be a portal documenting the activities of firefighters in the […]

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Beware of Spam Links that Look Like File Extensions!

29

Aug

2012

Since mid-August, Symantec have been observing spam samples containing links with file extensions in the URLs. If these links are clicked they do not open any files, instead they redirect the user to an online pharmacy website. The following file extensions are used in the URLs: .asp .doc .htm .html .mp3 .mpeg .pdf .php .txt […]

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