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A Phone Call, a Phish, and a Remote Access Trojan

14

May

2013

In April 2013, Symantec was alerted to a series of sophisticated social-engineering attacks targeting a limited set of organizations in Europe. The most distinguishing feature of these attacks is that the victim will receive a phone call from the attacker who impersonates an employee or business associate of the organization. The caller spoke in French […]

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Updated data shows prevalence of Java malware in 2012

13

May

2013

Recently we released the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 14. The report initially presented data showing reduced Java malware detections in Q3 2012 and gaining prevalence in Q4 of 2012. During a later review of the backend data, we found that we were missing some detection counts from our initial calculations. We have revised the […]

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Escrow Scams Searching New Avenues

09

May

2013

People dream big when buying expensive items like a car or a property. When those dreams are seen with very affordable price tags it certainly attracts everybody’s interest. There are lots of websites available that allow people to post free classified advertisements online and one of the biggest categories is that of used cars. This […]

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