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Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Emails

13

Jan

2012

Phishers are using spoofed email addresses from the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) to trick recipients into downloading a malicious executable. The emails is send from the spoofed email address “soc@us-cert.gov”,with subject “Phishing incident report call number: PH0000003863970”. The fake warning claims US-CERT has opened the incident number PH0000007135030 and invites recipients to enquire […]

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Indian Cyberspace hit by Kim Jong-II Malware Mails!

03

Jan

2012

It is observed that cybercriminals are using the name of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-II after his death, to target internet users. Attackers are achieving this by spamming malicious emails containing specially crafted pdf named “BriefintroductionofKim-Jong-il.pdf” This PDF file found to be exploiting CVE-2010-2883 and CVE-2010-3333 Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Once successfully exploited, […]

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Malicious Password-protected Documents used in Targeted Attacks

29

Dec

2011

Recently, we discovered malware in the wild in the form of document files, such as PDF and Word, using password protection. The malware are used as attachments in email in limited, targeted attacks. Passwords for document files are commonly used to prevent unauthorized access to the files by encrypting them with passwords. However, attackers are […]

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