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Of Spam and Speeding

19

Aug

2011

Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file […]

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Fight Cybercrime, But Keep The Net Free

08

Aug

2011

By Mikko Hypponen, Special to CNNAugust 7, 2011 (CNN) — Geography used to matter in crime. In the real world, you only have to worry about the criminals who live in your city. But in the online world, you have to worry about criminals who could be on the other side of the planet. Online […]

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Breaking news: Fake report of Fidel Castro’s death leads to malware attack

08

Aug

2011

Be on your guard if you receive an email seemingly from Chile’s “24 Horas” news website announcing the death of Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba. The spammed out messages, which are written in Spanish, look like the following: The messages have a subject line of Murio Fidel Castro and the text inside the […]

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