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Recently it was announced via posts in underground forums and Pastebin posts that a new version of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK), version 2.0, had been released. (The original announcement was in Russian; an English translation has been provided by researcher Denis Laskov and may be found here.) We cannot confirm that BHEK 2.0 has […]

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Late last week, some Flamer command-and-control (C&C) servers sent an updated command to several compromised computers. This command was designed to completely remove Flamer from the compromised computer. The Flamer attackers were still in control of at least a few C&C servers, which allowed them to communicate with a specific set of compromised computers. They […]

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Facebook users are being targeted with fake emails pertaining to come from the social network, alerting them to change the Password. The emails is send from the spoofed email address Facebook (update+{Random Characters}@facebookmail.com) with subjects like for example, -Security alert. -You account information. -New notifications. The email comes with an attachment, -alert1523230352.zip -alertN75139832.zip -instructions2374870680.zip Upon […]

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