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Wrapping up our series on recent malware and phishing attacks showing up in our spam buckets, here’s a look at another on-going malware-spam campaign. This sample came in last week, pretending to be from the IRS: It reminded me of a big zeus-related spam campaign that Gary Warner blogged about earlier this summer, in his […]

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It seems like Bitcoin is gaining popularity not only in the computing industry, but in the threat landscape as well.We’ve recently reported a couple of attacks involving malware that installs a Bitcoin mining application into affected systems. Apart from turning systems into unwilling “miners”, such malware also disrupt usage, since the mining process takes up […]

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After the blog entry of spam emails impersonating FBI to distribute W32.FakeFBIVariantovLT.Trojan, we have discovered a new fraud software distribution stratagem which uses spam email faking New York State Police. The email, sent from email address at domain name nyc.gov, informs of receiver’s over-speeding at 7:25 am July 5. Following is the request that the […]

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