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From Alarming to Familiar: Different Social Engineering Techniques

23

Feb

2013

In the course of our threat research, we’ve encountered different types of social engineering lures that aim to trigger different emotions such as fear and happiness. These lures are often effective, as we’ve seen happen in several incidents in the past. However, they are also easily recognizable as they often use a common theme, be […]

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Malware Dubbed “The Remote Control Virus” by Japanese Media Used to Make Death Threats in Japan

11

Oct

2012

News broke over the weekend in Japan that police had arrested three people over the past few months in relation to death threats being posted on bulletin boards and sent through email. However, it was also reported that the suspects were subsequently released without charge due to the discovery of a particular malware infection on […]

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Follow up on Russian scam

14

Feb

2012

Last week, I described how many websites hosted on DreamHost had been hijacked.Since then, I found the same scams on websites hosted with different providers. Often, vulnerable sites are hacked by many groups for various purposes including spam delivery, such as Blackhat SEO, other scams, etc. Many of the sites hosting the Russian scams are […]

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