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North Korea Rocket Launch Used As Backdoor Lure

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Apr

2012

Using global political news as a social engineering hook is a popular cybercrime tool, particularly used to lure users into their malicious schemes. We have recently found a malicious file leveraging a noteworthy incident, one that leads to systems being infected with a backdoor. During the second of week of April, the most talked about […]

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Bogus Olympics 2012 Email Warning Blindside Users With Malware

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Apr

2012

The upcoming London Olympics is undoubtedly one of the most highly-anticipated sports event of the year. It is also a favorite social engineering ploy among cybercriminals. Just recently, we found an Olympics scam in the form of a lottery that promises a free travel package to the event. Some online crooks, however, played it differently […]

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Flashback Cleanup Still Underway-Approximately 140,000 Infections

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Apr

2012

Today’s blog is a quick follow up to the OSX.Flashback.K issue. The statistics from our sinkhole are showing declining numbers on a daily basis. However, we had originally believed that we would have seen a greater decline in infections at this point in time, but this has proven not to be the case. Currently, it […]

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