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Video of Gadhafi’s Death Being Used for Spam

Oct

2011

We’ve been seeing a particular social engineering lure in spam runs in the past, where spammers leverage the death of a known celebrity or political figure. Recent examples of this include the death of Steve Jobs, and Amy Winehouse. In this spam run using Gadhafi’s death, however, a more compelling lure is being used to […]

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Linux Tsunami hits OS X

Oct

2011

We’ve just come across an IRC controlled backdoor that is enables the infected machine to become a bot for Distributed Denial of Service attacks. The interesting part about it is that it’s a Mach-O binary – targeting Mac OS X. ESET’s research team compared this to samples in our malware collection and discovered that this […]

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Warning On E-mails About “iPhone 5GS”

Oct

2011

Apple is expected to announce their next smartphone tomorrow. Scammers know this and they know people are excited about the upcoming announcement. So they are spamming out malicious e-mails with messages such as this: That’s probably not what the next iPhone will look alike. However, if you get curious and click on the links, you […]

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