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New worm infects RAR archives

15

May

2012

The Russian IT security company Doctor Web is informing users about the worm Win32.HLLW.Autoruner.64548, which can infect RAR archives. It can download executables files from a remote server to perform malicious tasks in the compromised system.Win32.HLLW.Autoruner.64548 spreads as many other worms do: it creates its copy on a disk and places the file autorun.inf into […]

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Malware Targets Demonstrators Opposed to Putin’s Re-Election

08

Mar

2012

Contributor: Pavlo Prodanchuk A wave of spam emails promoting a rally against newly elected president Vladimir Putin of Russia began around March 5. An attachment purporting to contain details of an upcoming anti-Putin demonstration accompanied email subjects with varying call-to-action lines: “All to demonstration” “Instructions what to do” “Meeting for the equal elections” Here is […]

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IRS Notification Letter Email scam

26

Jul

2011

The Chepvil malware which comes via email as an attachment using another trick to spread, you may receive email stating that it is from IRS.gov. and the subject “IRS Notification Letter”. The email as shown below The attachment comes with the names IRS document.rar. On extracting user gets an executable file with the pdf file […]

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