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Better Business Bureau malware attack spammed out

09

Feb

2012

Have you received an email claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) today? If you did, be careful. Because the emails don’t really originate from the BBB. Instead, they have been spammed out widely across the internet by cybercriminals hoping that you will be tricked into opening the malicious attachment. The emails, which […]

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Infostealer.Offsupload: 20,000+ Archives Containing Stolen Data Uploaded to Third Party File-Sharing Site

09

Feb

2012

Upwards of 20,000 stolen archives have been uploaded to a third party file-sharing site from hosts infected with a new threat called Infostealer.Offsupload. The following heatmap indicates the U.S. is the primary target of infection, however, only a few countries worldwide have managed to avoid the affect of this threat. Infostealer.Offsupload is being used as […]

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The Sykipot Campaign

18

Dec

2011

Last week reports surfaced about a “zero-day” exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462) that had been actively used in targeted attacks beginning in November. The malicious PDFs were emailed to targets along with text encouraging the target to open the malicious attachment. If opened, the malware known as BKDR_SYKIPOT.B installs onto the target system. The reported […]

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