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Malicious Email Campaign Uses Current Socio-Political Events as Lure for Targeted Attack

15

Mar

2012

We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the supposed statement from the German Chancellor regarding the protests in Lhasa, Tibet. The From field indicates that it came from a key officer from the ATC or Australian Tibet […]

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DDoS Attacks in Russia Added to Protests

16

Feb

2012

2011, and now 2012, appear to be years of major populist protests regarding political processes around the world. Russia is no different. News reports of protests in the streets of Moscow have been increasing, with protesters demanding election reforms and fairness. It is in this backdrop that we’re seeing DDoS attacks against some websites. A […]

Category Security Written by Arbor Networks 0 Comments

SOPA Protest: Wikipedia Traffic Trend

19

Jan

2012

If you want a quick way of increasing traffic to your website – change or take down portions of your website in protest … at least that is what we have gleaned from today’s Wikipedia protest against SOPA. There will likely be other blog posts and stats released on the results of this and other […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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