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Phishers Pursue More Victims by Urging Users to Spam

17

Jul

2013

Improving effectiveness of phishing bait is always at the top of any phishers’ agenda. They prefer to use bait that reflects enticing subjects in order to catch the attention of as many users as possible. Recently, we have seen phishers moving one step ahead. In addition to having eye-catching bait, they are compelling users to […]

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Grum lives!

22

May

2013

Grum, one of the largest spamming botnets, suspected to be responsible for over 17% of worldwide spam (as described here), which was “killed” in July 2012, still lives. We have been tracking its activity since January 2013. We can confirm spiderlab’s doubts about the grum killing published in March 2013. The following article provides some details […]

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Black.Energy botnet reborn

17

Jan

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about another malicious program of the BackDoor.BlackEnergy family. In July 2012 many mass media outlets reported on the shutting down of the main BlackEnergy servers, but the botnet ceased to operate completely only in autumn 2012. And a new modification of the threat emerged in January 2013. […]

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