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You Have Received a Christmas Card

09

Nov

2012

It is more than a month until Christmas, but spammers are all set to spam the vacation season. We have observed Christmas related spam messages flowing into the Symantec Probe Network.For greeting card spam, spammers used a legitimate look and feel in the email with headers (Subject & From) and flash animations that included a […]

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Criminals fake Amazon.com to send malicious spam

24

Oct

2012

Doctor Web is warning users about malicious spam, allegedly from Amazon.com, that has been spreading widely since October 22. These messages prompt the recipient to download a license for Microsoft Windows; however, by clicking on the link, the user infects the system with two malicious programs simultaneously (Trojan.Necurs.97 and BackDoor.Andromeda.22). They stand by for the […]

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Crisis for Windows Sneaks onto Virtual Machines

21

Aug

2012

Symantec reported new malware for Mac last month that we called OSX.Crisis. Kaspersky then reported that it arrives on the compromised computer through a JAR file by using social engineering techniques.The JAR file contains two executable files for both Mac and Windows. It checks the compromised computer’s OS and drops the suitable executable file. Both […]

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