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Malicious Spam Emails Target Nightclub Disaster in Santa Maria

29

Jan

2013

Tweet Symantec Security Response has observed that spammers are distributing malicious emails that attempt to lure users into viewing a video of the incident that killed 233 people recently in a horrific tragedy at a popular nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil. The malicious email is in Portuguese and invites unsuspecting users to click on a […]

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Malware delivered with fake hotel reservations

29

Jan

2013

We wrote last week about Malware delivered with fake Craigslist fax-to-email notifications.This week’s malware delivery mechanism is a fake email notification from the well-known online hotel reservations portal booking.com. The malware is delivered when you click on “Print Booking Details” via an archive which should contain the form with the reservation details. In order to […]

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Fake iTunes gift certificate delivers a load of malware for Black Friday shoppers

24

Nov

2011

Criminals are banking on post-Thanksgiving turkey-eating coma and Black Friday shopping frenzy in the US to trick American internet users to click to through to malware posing as a $50 iTunes gift certificate. (Black Friday is the name given to the Friday after US Thanksgiving, when frenzied seasonal shopping typically starts.) The research team from […]

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