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Check from Christian Liberty Financial? Beware spammed-out malware attack

02

Apr

2012

Sophos – Would you believe your luck if someone handed you money in the street for doing.. well.. nothing?Probably not. So why would you believe an email that arrives out of the blue, claiming to have a check attached?We’re intercepting a malicious spam campaign that claims to come from Christian Liberty Financial, and might trick […]

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Super Tuesday malware attack targets US voters

08

Mar

2012

A customer submitted an interesting file to SophosLabs yesterday, and asked us to take a look at it. Its name was Super_Tuesday_2012_voting_information.exe “Super Tuesday”, as American readers are probably all too aware, is the day when the largest number of American states vote to choose which candidate will run for the job of president in […]

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Fake news of Hugo Chavez’s death leads to malware

13

Dec

2011

Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of a malware campaign last week, when an email was spammed out claiming to contain breaking news of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The email claimed that government officials had confirmed the death of 57-year-old Chavez, after a struggle against cancer. The news of […]

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