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It was a sad day in the technology industry with the recent passing of Apple’s legendary leader, Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, the cyber-criminals see this as an opportunity. Today, we started seeing a Steve Jobs spam campaign, with the subject suggesting that he is still alive. Steve Jobs Alive! Steve Jobs Not Dead! Steve Jobs: Not […]

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Have you received an email with an “ACH Payment xxxxx Canceled” subject line?  Please don’t open the link in the email, as it will take you to a malicious URL. Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that an email campaign broke out on 27th September, 2011. In this campaign,  all the emails had the subject line “ACH Payment xxxxxx Canceled”, where xxxxx is a random […]

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The big story yesterday (9/26/2011) was mysql.com getting hacked, and serving up malicious JavaScript in its pages. The JavaScript created an invisible iFrame that linked to a drive-by-download attack hosted on malicious servers — an attack with a poorly detected payload. In related news, there were also reports that “root” access to mysql.com had been […]

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