Posts Tagged ‘government agencies’

The challenges of implementing tokenization in a medium-sized enterprise

Jul

2015

We have seen a concerning pattern in the recent data breaches, including the breach at the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) and other US government agencies in that the primary target was Social Security Numbers (SSN) and other Personal Identifying Information (PII). Criminals typically started by stealing data from smaller, less protected organizations and then used […]

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RARSTONE Found In Targeted Attacks

Jun

2013

Earlier in February we blogged about RARSTONE, a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that we discovered having some similar characteristics to PlugX, an older and more well-known RAT. In April, the same malware family used the Boston Marathon bombing as part of its social engineering bait.Since then, we’ve been looking out for further attacks using RARSTONE. We’ve seen […]

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Spam with .gov URLs

Oct

2012

Symantec is observing an increase in spam messages containing .gov URLs. A screenshot of a sample message is below: Traditionally, .gov URLs have been restricted to government entities. This brings up the question of how spammers are using .gov URLs in spam messages.The answer is on this webpage: 1.USA.gov is the result of a collaboration between […]

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