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Pharma spam using LinkedIn again

18

Jan

2013

We wrote a couple of times already about spams pretending to come from LinkedIn which advertise online pharmacy websites. There is a new spam campaign which changed a bit the way the messages are presented to the users. Now the emails pretend to come from “LinkedIn Co. Technical Support”, “LinkedIn Co. Administration” and from “LinkedIn […]

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Black.Energy botnet reborn

17

Jan

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about another malicious program of the BackDoor.BlackEnergy family. In July 2012 many mass media outlets reported on the shutting down of the main BlackEnergy servers, but the botnet ceased to operate completely only in autumn 2012. And a new modification of the threat emerged in January 2013. […]

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Waledac Gets Cozy with Virut

15

Jan

2013

Recently, we blogged about the file-infector virus known as W32.Virut and the botnet’s return to distributing new payloads. In the blog, we estimated that the Virut botnet currently consists of 308,000 unique Virut clients active in a single day. It was also noted that Virut had been observed distributing payloads with the functionality to send out […]

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