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Would You Like Some Fish with That Phishing Site?

12

Sep

2013

Phishers are known for making their phishing sites look exactly like the sites they are spoofing. We have seen plenty of examples of the detail they employ, like using JavaScript to include the current date in their static pages. In recent times, Symantec have seen an increase in generic email phishing. Unlike normal phishing, where […]

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Online Activities Related to Elections in Malaysia

03

May

2013

Malaysia’s 2013 general elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013. Political news coverage is currently inundating all news outlets, including social networking sites, as the country’s political parties go into high gear in the final run-up to polling day. The huge media interest creates an opportunity for malware writers to gain new victims using […]

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The Shamoon Attacks Continue

04

Sep

2012

Symantec Security Response has been investigating further reports of infections of W32.Disstrack, the threat used in the Shamoon attacks. W32.Disttrack is a highly destructive threat that destroys files and the master boot record (MBR) of the infected machine, causing maximum disruption.W32.Disttrack uses a hardcoded “wiping date” which is read from a variably named “.pnf” file […]

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