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Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

31

Jan

2012

Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: The attack contains a .htm attachment and obfuscated JavaScript is embedded in the coding of the […]

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Beware of Your Holiday Travel E-Ticket Confirmation

22

Nov

2011

How does Symantec know it's the week of Thanksgiving? Because as the busiest travel day of the year day quickly approaches, the day just before Thanksgiving , there is a surge in fake email ticket confirmations that lead to viruses. Here is what a fake airline message looks like: If you inspect the HTML coding […]

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.HLPing Targeted Attacks

14

Sep

2011

[Thanks to Takayoshi Nakayama for his research and contributions to this blog.] Targeted attacks have been a pretty popular topic of discussion in the security industry in recent years. Many may recall the incident involving Hydraq—from January 2010—and Shady RAT was something discussed more recently. Most targeted attacks involve emails with malware attachments as the […]

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