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Emails containing fake invoices from Apple and Plus.de distribute malware

30

Apr

2013

The German users should be aware of a massive spam campaign with emails pretending to come from Apple and Plus.de (discounter) containing a invoice of a good they bought from their shop. The so called invoice is in a ZIP archive containing a … SCR file. SCR is the classical extension for screen saver programs […]

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Emails with malicious links exploit the explosion in Waco,Texas

19

Apr

2013

In the same day with the spam campaign that was making use of the tragedy in Boston to spread malware, we have started to see the second wave of spam going on. This campaign is making use of the explosion in the fertilizer plant in Waco, Texas, US. The emails are using the same template […]

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Botnet attack on WordPress

15

Apr

2013

Over the past two week, we have been tracking an alarming brute force password-guessing attacks against Web sites powered by WordPress – the most popular content management system in use today (Avira Techblog also runs WordPress). You can see below how various IP addresses (in my example from China) try to connect to the known […]

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