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A Refresher on Spam and Exploits

13

Oct

2011

Lately, we have been seeing a renewed increase in volume of spam attacks that utilizes an exploit kit – specifically, the BlackHole exploit kit – to trigger a malicious payload. Specifically, we have seen this in the latest slew of Automated Clearing House (ACH) spam, and the more recent spam run related to Steve Jobs’ […]

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Backdoor Snoops on Skype, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger

11

Oct

2011

We recently came across reports about a hacker group that was able to detect a backdoor which was found capable of monitoring online activities and recording calls when using Skype. However, apart from its routines, it garnered media attention because of its claims that the discovered backdoor may be used by German Law Enforcement.The malware, […]

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Steve Jobs Proclaimed Alive by Spam

07

Oct

2011

After tricking users into viewing advertisements through a Facebook scam, cybercriminals are again capitalizing on the death of Steve Jobs through malicious spam.We were able to find spam messages that contain the text “Steve Jobs Alive” or “Steve Jobs Not Dead“.Another Steve Jobs-related spam we saw is in Portuguese, and includes a short text about […]

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