Posts Tagged ‘new year’

Facebook Malware campaign

Jan

2013

We’re seeing a massive campaign of malware distribution through Facebook look-a-like pages that started just before the new year. Malicious page distributing malware These pages are using the free DNS and hosting provider .tk. This provider has been used for many spam and malware campaigns in the past. Here are some of the domains used: […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

Fraudulent e-Commerce Websites Exploit the Post-New Year’s Day Sales Drive

Jan

2013

As we welcome the New Year, we must be aware that the bad guys will use every opportunity to exploit events of a positive and negative nature. Yes, even the recent disastrous weather experienced on the east coast of the United States was exploited to try and obtain valuable information that could be used for identity […]

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MSRT January 2013 – Ganelp

Jan

2013

To start the new year, we have added the Win32/Ganelp and Win32/Lefgroo families of worms to the January release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Win32/Ganelp spreads via removable drives, uploads stolen information and downloads arbitrary files from remote FTP servers. We have had detection signatures for this family for approximately 2 years and it continues to […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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Facebook Malware campaign

Fraudulent e-Commerce Websites Exploit the Post-New Year’s Day Sales Drive

MSRT January 2013 – Ganelp

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