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The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a spam campaign that tries to exploit recipients' interest in the current presidential campaign in the US.  Specifically, we have detected thousands of emails with this kind of content: As noted recently, we are seeing an increasing number of spam campaigns with malicious links that lead to BlackHole exploit pages. This is also […]

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In October 2011, we documented a particular targeted attack campaign – The Nitro Attacks. In that instance, the attackers were primarily targeting chemical companies. Despite our work in uncovering and publishing the details behind the attacks, the attackers continued undeterred, even using our own report in their social engineering campaign!The attackers have escalated their efforts […]

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An unpatched JRE 1.7/Java 7 zero-day vulnerability was recently found to be exploited by a malicious .JAR file hosted on a specific site. Successful exploit leads to the download of a backdoor, in effect allowing remote malicious users to execute their desired commands on the vulnerable system. The zero-day exploit successfully runs in all versions […]

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