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“Boston Marathon” spam / askmeaboutcctv.com

17

Apr

2013

This pretty shameful Boston marathon themed spam leads to malware on askmeaboutcctv.com:Sample 1:From: Graham Jarvis [mailto:alejandro.alfonzo-larrain@tctwest.net] Sent: 17 April 2013 09:49Subject: Video of Explosion at the Boston Marathon 2013hxxp:||61.63.123.44/news.htmlSample 2:From: Sally Rasmussen [mailto:artek33@risd.edu] Sent: 17 April 2013 09:49To: UK HPEA 2Subject: Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathonhxxp:||190.245.177.248/news.html(Note that the payload links have been lightly obfuscated, […]

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KELIHOS Worm Emerges, Takes Advantage of Boston Marathon Blast

17

Apr

2013

Within a short time period of less than 24 hours, cybercriminals have already taken advantage of Monday’s explosion at the Boston Marathon as a newsworthy item. My colleague Mary Ermitano-Aquino noted a spam outbreak of more than 9,000 Blackhole Exploit Kit spammed messages, all related to the said tragedy that killed at least three people […]

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Yesterday’s Virus Hoax is Today’s Fake Utility

25

May

2011

One of the (few) blessings of having been so long in this industry is that I remember a time when most malware was viral and Trojans were rare: so rare, in fact, that there was at one time a notorious "dirty dozen" set of Trojans. At around the same time, there were innumerable hoaxes describing malware with […]

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