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Spammers Targeting Oklahoma Tornado Victims

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May

2013

Natural disasters, like tornadoes and earthquakes, are quite common in the United States of America. Unfortunately, the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore experienced a violent tornado on Monday, May 20, that sadly resulted in dozens of casualties. Spammers take advantage of natural disasters with luring scams and Symantec Security Response has started to observe spam […]

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The end of MSN Messenger, the beginning of attacks

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Mar

2013

Microsoft recently announced the shutdown of its popular IM client MSN Messenger, which will be replaced by Skype, but its end represents the beginning of malicious attacks posing as the installer of the software. Cybercriminals already started to use this fact in their attacks, registering malicious domains, buying sponsored links on search engines, tricking users […]

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Blackhole in 2013: What Is It Up To?

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Feb

2013

2013 has seen some significant changes in the way that attackers use the Blackhole exploit kit in spam attacks. To understand what these changes are, however, let us first go into what Blackhole did in late 2012.Last year, the majority of URLs found in Blackhole-related phishing messages had the following format: http://{compromised or abused site}/{eight-digit […]

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