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Boston Marathon Bombing Used in Malicious Spam Campaign

Apr

2013

On the afternoon of April 15, 2013, just when many people were on the cusp of conquering another personal milestone by completing the Boston Marathon, they were hit hard by an act of cowardice. Two bombs struck near the finish line of the Marathon on Monday. Within hours of the bomb blast, large malware-laden spam emails started doing […]

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KELIHOS Worm Emerges, Takes Advantage of Boston Marathon Blast

Apr

2013

Within a short time period of less than 24 hours, cybercriminals have already taken advantage of Monday’s explosion at the Boston Marathon as a newsworthy item. My colleague Mary Ermitano-Aquino noted a spam outbreak of more than 9,000 Blackhole Exploit Kit spammed messages, all related to the said tragedy that killed at least three people […]

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Compromised Yahoo accounts spread Android malware

Mar

2013

The surest way to know that an attack method is working for a malware gang is seeing the method repeated over a period of several months. In Commtouch’s October Trend Report we described an attack targeting Android users. Last week saw a repeat of the attack with a few refinements. The main elements: Single link […]

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