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News Of Hugo Chavez’s Death Used in Malicious Email Campaigns

Mar

2013

Following news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (as reported by the BBC) the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has identified several malicious email campaigns that make reference to the President's death. Malware authors are increasingly using breaking global news events as a means of propagating lures that lead to malware. Here is a screenshot […]

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Key Figure in Police Ransomware Activity Nabbed

Feb

2013

Ransomware is a nasty scam that infiltrates your computer and tricks you into thinking that you’ve done something wrong. Police ransomware in particular informs users that they need to pay their local police a fine.We have written detailed reports about these attacks in the past, including multiple blog posts as part of our investigations into […]

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Exploit Kit plays with smart redirection (amended)

Apr

2012

This week we have detected another interesting attack vector. This time cybercriminals are using an interesting technique for hiding malicious Javascripts and employ implicit iFrame injection. At this moment we are tracking hundreds of infected legitimate web sites in the Russian internet segment using this technique of infection. Let’s analyze this attack method step by […]

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