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Unsolicited Secret Admirers Via Email

02

Oct

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected an unsolicited email campaign in which love-struck or curious recipients may have their appetites whetted by the thought of a secret admirer. Although Websense customers are protected from this and other threats by ACE™, our Advanced Classification Engine, this post provides an insight into the campaign, which appears to […]

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Wagamama site compromised, but noodles are still good

01

Oct

2012

The Websense ThreatSeeker Network has detected that the website hxxp://goeast(dot)wagamama(dot)com, associated with Wagamama (a Japanese and sushi restaurant chain), has been compromised and injected with malicious code, also known as a RunForestRun attack. RunForestRun attack exploits vulnerability in Parallels Plesk to obtain user account credentials, then compromised accounts are used to modify JavaScript files. As shown […]

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Fake ‘KLM e-Ticket’ attempts to install backdoor

21

Sep

2012

Fake airline e-ticket emails containing malicious attachments are far from new. However, the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a significant campaign purporting to originate from KLM, the Dutch flagship airline. We estimate we intercepted more than 850,000 messages from this campaign on Monday, September 17, alone. Each malicious message, with a subject 'KLM e-Ticket', appears to use a legitimate KLM […]

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