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Explosions at Boston Marathon inspire cyber attackers – Email promising news turns out to be multi-faceted malware trap

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Apr

2013

The email The structure of the displayed URL is always the same:http ://IP-address/news.html or http ://IP-address/boston.html The subject lines vary but are always related directly to Boston. Here are some examples in alphabetical order: 2 Explosions at Boston Marathon Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathon Boston Explosion Caught on Video BREAKING – Boston Marathon Explosion […]

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Margaret Thatcher’s Death Used in Cyber Attacks

10

Apr

2013

As the world remembers former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, cyber attackers are participating too, but in their own tricky ways. Websense® Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected that attackers are sending malicious email spam with a topic referencing the death of Mrs. Thatcher. Actually, it is not new for an attacker to use a hot […]

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Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection

08

Apr

2013

Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ a simple phishing attack by modifying the hosts file on Windows systems. What’s interesting, however, is the technique chosen by the malware authors to distribute their payload. The samples in question (Example MD5: 34d9b42bfd64c6f752fe27eef8d80c5f) are packaged in a ZIP file along with […]

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Explosions at Boston Marathon inspire cyber attackers – Email promising news turns out to be multi-faceted malware trap

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