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Fake CNN and BBC spam news messages

25

Mar

2013

Fake CNN and BBC spam messages use current events like “New Pope sued over sex abuse” to lure users to exploit sites. AVG Web Threats researchers have found spam from scammers using the Blackhole exploit kit that use the issue of sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church as bait. The spam, which impersonates CNN.com […]

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Ransomware false advertising

22

Mar

2013

The AVG Web Threats Research group found a redesign of a recent ransomware page that claims the scam has dealings with most of the major anti-virus companies in the world, including AVG. The malicious operators behind the scheme have put the name and logo of the US Department of Justice at the top of their […]

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Win32/Cridex: Java pushes Cyprus into a Blackhole

20

Mar

2013

Sadly, Cyprus has been the source of bad news lately. Even sadder, nothing travels faster than bad news, and bad people are all too ready to use bad news to trick their victims into opening bad files. My colleague Aleksandr Matrosov has alerted us to a spammed out message crammed with malicious links. Here’s a […]

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