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King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis

11

May

2012

We have just completed fresh analysis of the malicious software known as Win32/Festi. While the "Festi" botnet created with this malware has been in business since the autumn of 2009 we can see that the software is frequently updated, as described in our analysis, and these updates mean Festi continues to be a potent threat […]

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Widespread malware abuses unsecured Geolocation Service of Adult Website

04

May

2012

While researching outbound malware communications to improve detections for our products, we recently made an interesting discovery. Thousands of samples running in our malware lab reached out to the URL promos.fling.com/geo/txt/city.php. At first we suspected this to be a command and control (C&C) server of botnet malware. However, Websense® categorization of the main Web page of the […]

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Users receive malware instead of travel documents – Fake booking confirmations lure users into malware trap

03

May

2012

The holidays are getting closer and many people are using the Internet to find out information on holiday destinations or even conveniently book their entire holiday over the Internet. In fact over 14 million people in Germany have booked a holiday via the Internet in the past year (source: VuMa 2011). Online criminals are picking […]

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