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Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

20

Feb

2012

Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a malicious attachment (in this case, a .doc file although there are rogue PDF files in circulation […]

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“Your accountant CPA license termination” spam / biggestsetter.com and 199.30.89.0/24

17

Feb

2012

I haven’t seen this spam before, but the malicious payload it leads to is very familiar.. Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2012 14:35:18 +0200 From: “Mae Keller” Subject: Your accountant CPA license termination. You’re receiving this notification as a Certified Public Accountant and a member of AICPA. Having trouble reading this email? View […]

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Patch Tuesday February 2012

15

Feb

2012

Microsoft is releasing 9 Security Bulletins this month (MS12-008 through MS12-016), patching a total 21 vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities may enable remote code execution (RCE) in limited circumstances, and offensive security researchers have claimed that a “bug” fixed this month should be client-side remote exploitable, but after months of public circulation, there have been […]

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Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

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