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Trend Micro Researchers Identify Vulnerability in Hotmail

24

May

2011

A couple of days ago, my colleagues reported an attack that appears to be targeted and that involves email messages sent through a Webmail service. Upon further investigation, we were able to confirm that this attack exploits a previously unpatched vulnerability in Hotmail. Trend Micro detects the malicious email messages as HTML_AGENT.SMJ. The said attack […]

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Spammers Claim Wikipedia for Pharma Fakes

16

May

2011

Last year, phishers targeted Wikipedia with a large number of spam emails that directed unsuspecting users to a fraudulent Wikipedia website. Currently, we are observing a new spam tactic being used, which targets the Wikipedia name for the promotion of fake pharmaceutical products. In the last couple of days, we have observed various spam email […]

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Targeted Attack Exposes Risk of Checking Personal Webmail at Work

13

May

2011

TrendLabs is currently monitoring an in the wild attack which highlights the underrated and often ignored risk to companies that allow employees to check their personal webmail while at work. Yesterday, one of our colleagues in Taiwan received what looks like a targeted attack via webmail. Unlike other email-based attacks that require users to open […]

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