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Fake Zendesk security notice spammed out, directs traffic to Canadian drug websites

22

Mar

2013

I’m always on the lookout for breaking news about companies who might have had their systems hacked, so when I received the following email earlier today my interest was piqued.Its subject line was “An important notice about security”. We recently learned that the vendor we use to answer support requests and other emails (Zendesk) experienced […]

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Trojan.Ransomgerpo Criminal Arrested

14

Feb

2013

Spanish police have reported the arrest of an individual involved with a particular strain of police Ransomware known as Ransom.EY, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Ransomgerpo.This variant is one of the earliest active police Ransomware families, which Symantec has been tracking since at least July, 2011. The Trojan was distributed using drive by download techniques, in […]

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FBI ransomware and what you can view from the street

20

Oct

2012

When we saw the adjacent sign at a small-town, independent IT service company called The Computer Shop, in Carlisle, Pa (north eastern USA for those who need a geographical help!) we couldn’t resist the urge to go inside and get the “street-level” view of the recent surge of “FBI” ransomware. We spoke to a store […]

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