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Form-based Phishing

23

Sep

2011

In addition to an interesting malware attack, last week’s spam honeypots prompted this post on something new I’ve been seeing in some phishing attacks: rather than just drop a phishing page onto a hacked site, the Bad Guys drop a self-contained form-generating kit, and use that to generate the page. Here’s what the phishy e-mail […]

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Blocking a Malware-spam Attack, Before it Happens

17

Sep

2011

An interesting malware attack showed up in two of my honeypots one morning this week. I then received a third copy from a co-worker later that morning, so I did a little research to gather enough data for a blog post. The e-mails are interesting, since they purport to be simple bills or invoices (“pending […]

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Weekend Malware Spam Attacks Show Users Keep Taking the Bait

29

Jun

2011

This past weekend a couple of spam-based malware attacks caught my attention: I was alerted to the first one via one of my favorite security blogs: Gary Warner’s Cybercrime and Doing Time. (Although his posts have decreased in frequency this year, they’re well worth reading when they do come out.) He largely focuses on spam, […]

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