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Not Allowing Spammers the Slightest Space

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May

2012

For anti-spam software, it is quite easy to prevent spam by using content-based filters. So spammers come up with different obfuscation techniques to bypass URL-based filters such as inserting “shy characters”, as we have discussed previously. Recently, spammers have been trying to cash-in on the smallest of gaps that they could find in conventional anti-spam […]

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French Budget Minister website hijacked

19

Apr

2012

We’ve seen an increase in hijacked websites in recent months, redirecting users to Fake AV pages, Blackhole exploit kits and other malware. While most websites hacked are personal sites, or University websites, some are more high profile. http://www.performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr/ hijacked The website of the French Minister of Budget (www.performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr) is an example of a high profile […]

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Details of a “new” Fake AV page

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Apr

2012

As I mentioned last week, more Fake AV pages are once again showing up in popular Google searches. Although these malicious pages look the same as they did 2 years ago, the source code is different. The first thing you notice in the source code is that there is no obfuscation at all. The attacker […]

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