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Anatomy of an on-going Malvertising Campaign

29

Mar

2012

During the course of investigating an open incident ticket with a customer, we uncovered what is a common occurrence on the web – legitimate sites linking in third-party content (often advertisements or banners) that ultimately drives the victim browser to an exploit kit.Here is the chain of events that we observed: User browsed to: www.thenewsvault.com […]

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News of Malicious Email Campaign Used As Social Engineering Bait

27

Mar

2012

In an ironic twist of events, the news about the malicious email campaign that leverages political issues related to Tibet is now being used in a separate campaign resulting to malware infection. So far, we have encountered two email campaigns using this particular social engineering technique. The first one, according to reports, has a spoofed […]

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AutoSandbox – why are you annoying me?

20

Mar

2012

Does this situation seem familiar? I have just downloaded an awesome application which should contain thousands of new desktop pictures. The site name is www.bestsoftwareforever.com and wow, it must be pretty good. So, I run it and then this avast! AutoSandbox popup appears. Oh guys, why are you annoying me? I know what I am […]

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