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Herald Media News Portal Compromised, Used to Serve Exploits

18

Jun

2012

Barracuda Labs – Beginning in early May 2012 and persisting over a period of ten days, Herald Media’s primary news portal (heraldm.com) was compromised and used to serve drive-by download exploits. Based in Seoul, South Korea, Herald Media’s publications include The Korea Herald and The Business Herald.Starting on May 9, a javascript resource used throughout […]

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A Fresh Example of a Blackhole Spam

15

Jun

2012

My spam honeypots yesterday yielded a nice example of a spam attack being used to lure people to servers hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit, which we've blogged about several times in the last six months or so. The spam arrived the evening before. Here's how it looked: Clicking on one of the links took […]

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LinkedIn spam serving Adobe and Java exploits

14

Jun

2012

Today we will be reviewing a cybercriminal’s recipe for success: Hacking LinkedIn’s password (and possibly user-) database. Sending an email to all obtained email addresses, which is urging you to check your LinkedIn inbox as soon as possible. A user unawarely clicking on the link. An exploit gets loaded. Malware gets dropped. Malware gets executed. […]

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