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Survey Spam Also Bank on 2012 Olympics Fever

25

Jul

2012

It’s no surprise to see that criminals are banking on a highly anticipated sporting event such as the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be held in London, England. And as early as 2010, Olympic-themed spam has been out there. There’s a number of different types, too-from the classic lottery scam mails, to fake tickets and […]

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Umbra Loader Botnet Behind Fake 123greeting.com Spam Campaign

13

Jul

2012

For years, we’ve seen reports about criminals preying on internet users using prefabricated email appearing to originate from legitimate e-card companies. Criminals had used the brands of Regards.Com, AmericanGreetings.Com, GreetingCards.Com, and Hallmark.Com, just to name a few, on their campaigns. Malicious e-card spam-the kind that leads users to download malware or phishing sites-is in the […]

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The end of DNS-Changer

06

Jul

2012

FBI’s “Operation Ghost Click” was discussed earlier by my colleague Kurt here and here and now it comes to an end. Next Monday, 9th of July, at 06:00 (MEZ) the temporary DNS-servers setup by FBI will be shut down. But still there are still thousands of infected machines – one can wonder, what will happen […]

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