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Explosions at Boston Marathon inspire cyber attackers – Email promising news turns out to be multi-faceted malware trap

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Apr

2013

The email The structure of the displayed URL is always the same:http ://IP-address/news.html or http ://IP-address/boston.html The subject lines vary but are always related directly to Boston. Here are some examples in alphabetical order: 2 Explosions at Boston Marathon Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathon Boston Explosion Caught on Video BREAKING – Boston Marathon Explosion […]

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Cruel Boston Marathon spam lures users to exploit pages

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Apr

2013

You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible scum? Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the Boston Marathon explosion to lure potential victims to […]

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How to protect your computer against dangerous Java Applets

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Apr

2013

Java exploits represent a common attack vector used by the bad guys to infiltrate vulnerable computers via the web browser. We wrote about the rise of Java exploits as early as 2010, and we haven’t seen that trend decline. In fact, in the first quarter of 2013 alone, we’ve seen three Java remote code execution […]

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