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Fake Twitter Confirmation Email Points to Blackhole Exploit

13

Jun

2012

Yesterday, we wrote about the return of Amazon spam, and how criminals behind this campaign led users to have their software exploited via the Blackhole exploit kit, especially if they’re not properly patched. At the end of that entry, we included a list of campaigns that use popular brand names that criminals bank on to […]

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Spoofed Xanga malicious emails, similar to Craigslist campaign

08

Jun

2012

Hot on the trail of yesterday's spoofed Craigslist malicious emails comes another variant, spotted today. This one spoofs a Xanga blog notification about a comment on your blog. So far we have seen about 140,000 of these in our Cloud Email Security portal. Websense Email Security and Websense Web Security protect against this kind of blended threat with ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine. Let’s […]

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284,000 WordPress sites hacked? Probably not.

06

Jun

2012

This Amazon order confirmation email is a fake. Every link leads to malware. Every link (there are 8 in this example – similar to this attack) leads to a different compromised WordPress site. And they all seem to be using one of the most common WordPress theme directory – check out the links: http://maximconsulting.us/wp-content/themes/twentyten/—e.html http://hampsteadelectrician.com/wp-content/themes/twentyten/—e.html […]

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