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Greetings from my first visit to Virus Bulletin

06

Oct

2011

Hakuna matata everyone! So i am here in sunny Barcelona for Virus Bulletin. Right now im taking a small break from all the interesting talks. Im sitting here listening to some crazy good dubstep and reviewing all the presentations from yesterday, and it just hit me, this is actually my first time at this conference, […]

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Traffic Ticket…or Malicious Attachment?

22

Aug

2011

In the past we have seen malicious attacks pretending to be shipment notifications from various parcel delivery services. Now the New York State DMV has become the latest “brandjacking” victim for a series of malware attacks. Here is what the fake message looks like: Ticket-064-211.zip is the name of the malicious attachment, and it is […]

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News Feeds Abused by Spammers, Again!

22

Aug

2011

In the past few weeks, we have observed an old spam tactic re-emerging. Spammers are again using news feed to populate the subject header of spam messages. This technique has been used in the past in the form of directory harvesting attacks to gather valid email addresses. However, these attacks usually lasted for only one […]

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