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Spam outbreak makes large-scale use of compromised Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL accounts as well as WordPress sites

11

Oct

2011

An ongoing outbreak is making extensive use of stolen accounts from Yahoo, Hotmail (Live) and AOL accounts. Sample emails sent from these accounts are shown below. A wide range of accounts have been tracked by Commtouch Labs – several thousand for each provider. The emails do not have a subject and simply feature a link […]

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Twice as bad: speeding ticket with attached malware

11

Oct

2011

Nobody likes receiving a traffic ticket, but one with attached malware is a lot worse. We could get into a philosophical argument about which is truly more terrible – a traffic ticket that adds points to your license and raises your insurance rates, or malware that infiltrates your PC, insinuating itself into your most private […]

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Facebook friends that you don’t need

01

Sep

2011

Commtouch labs has picked up a wave of phony Facebook friend request emails. Strangely, these all feature random Middle-Eastern/Asian names (not linked to actual Facebook accounts). Note that these requests arrive via email – not Facebook. Following any of the links leads to a malware download reported to be a variant of zbot. Zbot contacts […]

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