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Doctor Web: June virus activity review

Jul

2013

Despite summer being a holiday season, threats to IT security persisted in June. At the very beginning of the month, Doctor Web’s virus analysts discovered a new version of a dangerous Trojan targeting Linux servers, while in the middle of June, another wave of Trojan encoders swept across desktops. Also found was a host of […]

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Scammers Take Advantage of Dance Grand Prix Europe 2013

Jun

2013

The International Dance Competition “Dance Grand Prix Europe” is set to begin June 12 and will be hosted in Spain. The purpose of the competition is to showcase all the top dancers from various dance schools and this major event attracts choreographic talent from around the world. Spammers also don’t want to miss this event […]

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Rise in URL Spam

May

2013

Symantec is observing an increase in spam containing URLs. On May 16, URL spam volume increased by 12% from 84% to 96% and since then the URL spam volume fluctuated between 95% and 99%. That means 95% of the spam messages delivered during this period has one or more URLs in it.Figure 1. URL spam […]

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