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American Red Cross spam links to Paypal.com

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Jun

2012

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Spammers often take advantage of a wide variety of recognizable brands; Microsoft, UPS, banks, even the FBI. Whenever a large natural disaster strikes, such as the recent Colorado wildfires, spammers diversify and send donation emails using the brands of well known charities. A good example of […]

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Fake FBI Ransomware analysis

18

Jun

2012

In our previous blog post our AVG Web Threats Research group analyzed a Blackhole exploit kit serving the fake FBI Ransomware. Today we will have a look at the ransomware itself. Payload Here is a typical ransom malware payload once it’s active on infected computer: User’s desktop is locked with a full-screen information displayed Task […]

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Tool: DNS Check #DNSChanger

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Jun

2012

An Estonian company called Rove Digital was busted last November. Why? Because it was a front for the ad-fraud DNSChanger botnet. And ever since November, the USA’s FBI has been responsible for the substitute DNS servers designed to keep compromised computers from being disconnected (and causing support call chaos).Back in March, we wrote about the […]

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