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Reversal of fortune: Attempts to disguise file names

Sep

2012

Social engineering tactics are vast and varied, and we see all sorts of methods being used on a daily basis by malware authors, in their attempts to compromise your machine. One such method that we see often is malware being distributed as an alluring or enticing link or file, and we know that some users […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

Steer Clear of Steam Cracker

Apr

2012

I’m all for a spot of Lovecraftian tentacled horror coming down from the sky and laying waste to all and sundry, but not when that same unfathomable horror is doing the same thing to my PC like in the below example. Click to Enlarge Somebody put a lot of effort into this so-called “Steam Cracker” […]

Category General Written by GFI Labs blog 0 Comments

Dropbox Abused by Spammers

Mar

2012

Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam. Dropbox accounts have a public folder where files can be placed and made publicly available. This function is useful to spammers, as it effectively turns Dropbox into a free hosting site. Spammers have abused URL shortening and free hosting […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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