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SophosLabs is intercepting a large number of malicious emails that have been spammed out across the internet.The emails, which use a variety of subject lines, refer to selling real estate notes and claim to come from a firm called FCI Exchange.Here’s a typical example: Hello, We wanted to let you know that FCI Exchange, The […]

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This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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Last week Naked Security warned of a Facebook worm that was spreading on the social network, tricking users into believing that they were clicking on a link to an image. The bad news is that the attack appears to still appears to be spreading via Facebook’s chat system, exploiting compromised users’ accounts. An analysis by […]

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