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Email Threats Highlights: US Airways and American Airlines Spam

08

Feb

2013

Our researchers in the AV Labs found the following malicious spam campaigns related to airline flights that we’re highlighting this week: ‘Preferred Seat Order’ leads to malware infection. Patrons of American Airlines (AA) were targetted by online criminals via a surge of spam claiming to be “preferred seat order” email notifications. Image and text links on the message […]

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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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LinkedIn Spam: The Repeat

19

Dec

2012

Another slew of spam claiming to originate from LinkedIn has hit the wild Internet in less than 24 hours, according to the real time recording and tracking of email threats by our researchers in the AV Labs.The malicious spam, this time, poses a question then gives a less-than-stellar answer to it, something criminals are counting on that recipients […]

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