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Online Activities Related to Elections in Malaysia

May

2013

Malaysia’s 2013 general elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013. Political news coverage is currently inundating all news outlets, including social networking sites, as the country’s political parties go into high gear in the final run-up to polling day. The huge media interest creates an opportunity for malware writers to gain new victims using […]

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Stealing currency permits from the Government

Oct

2012

Right after the Venezuelan presidential elections cybercriminals launched a new credential stealing malware joined by a social engineering campaign saying that supposedly the last election was a fraud. The name of the malicious file is “listas-fraude-electoral.pdf.exe” which is translates to “Fraud elections lists” and it spread via a fake Globovision Venezuelan news TV station. The […]

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The Sykipot Campaign

Dec

2011

Last week reports surfaced about a “zero-day” exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462) that had been actively used in targeted attacks beginning in November. The malicious PDFs were emailed to targets along with text encouraging the target to open the malicious attachment. If opened, the malware known as BKDR_SYKIPOT.B installs onto the target system. The reported […]

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