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Ransomware: How to Earn $33,000 Daily

08

Nov

2012

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that disables the functionality of a computer in some way and demands a ransom in order to restore the computer to its original state. Recent variants use law enforcement imagery to add legitimacy to the warning messages. The malware uses geo-location services to determine the location of the […]

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Spam with .gov URLs

20

Oct

2012

Symantec is observing an increase in spam messages containing .gov URLs. A screenshot of a sample message is below: Traditionally, .gov URLs have been restricted to government entities. This brings up the question of how spammers are using .gov URLs in spam messages.The answer is on this webpage: 1.USA.gov is the result of a collaboration between […]

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Spoofed WebEx, PayPal Emails Lead to Rogue Flash Update

17

Oct

2012

Without verifying its legitimacy, users who may be anticipating a WebEx conference are at risk of downloading variants of a notorious info stealing malware.Last week, we received two spoofed emails that redirect users to a fake Adobe Flash Player update. These messages use different approaches to lure users into downloading the malicious file update_flash_player.exe (detected […]

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