Posts Tagged ‘disguises’

Blackhole Spam Run Evades Detection Using Punycode

May

2013

The Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) spam run has already assumed various disguises during its course. Some variants have taken various forms, such as official bank notice, cable provider email update, social networking email, and fake courier notification.Lately, we have seen a slew of spam crafted as a notice from the popular retail chain Walmart. However, […]

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Fake SourceForge site distributes malware

Apr

2013

We spotted malware hosted on hxxp://sourceforgechile.net/ a couple of days ago. The website is not currently responding, but appears to been set up as a fake and malicious version of the popular open-source hosting site SourceForge. sourceforgechile.net was registered on 04/05/213 in the US and is hosted in the Ukraine. One of the malicious files […]

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Lady Gaga is still not dead – stop falling for Facebook scams

Sep

2011

This weekend we saw another spate of Facebook messages claiming to link to a BBC News report of the death of Lady Gaga. Of course, the claims are untrue – and Lady Gaga is still alive. But that isn’t stopping Facebook scammers from creating money-making websites that claim that the eccentric pop star has been […]

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