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Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

31

Jan

2012

Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: The attack contains a .htm attachment and obfuscated JavaScript is embedded in the coding of the […]

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Beware of Your Holiday Travel E-Ticket Confirmation

22

Nov

2011

How does Symantec know it's the week of Thanksgiving? Because as the busiest travel day of the year day quickly approaches, the day just before Thanksgiving , there is a surge in fake email ticket confirmations that lead to viruses. Here is what a fake airline message looks like: If you inspect the HTML coding […]

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Traffic Ticket…or Malicious Attachment?

22

Aug

2011

In the past we have seen malicious attacks pretending to be shipment notifications from various parcel delivery services. Now the New York State DMV has become the latest “brandjacking” victim for a series of malware attacks. Here is what the fake message looks like: Ticket-064-211.zip is the name of the malicious attachment, and it is […]

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