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As real estate market heats up, so do real estate phishing emails

Jul

2012

The real estate market in the United States is showing signs of heating up, and spammers are taking advantage of the increased activity by sending thousands and thousands of email phishing messages. Disguised as real estate listing notifications the messages are sent with the hope that harried home buyers, desperate for new properties, will unwittingly […]

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DarkComet RAT – It is the END!

Jul

2012

The official website of DarkComet remote administration tool (RAT), detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Breut, has published a statement, as shown below, explaining that the project has come to an end. The DarkComet RAT grabbed news headlines this year when it was used in the Syrian conflict to spy on regime supporters. The decision of the author to […]

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Phishers vs. customers of Russian hosting providers, new attacks on social networkers, and other virus events of October 2011

Nov

2011

October 2011 was marked by the increased activity of cyber fraudsters employing phishing and other social-engineering tricks in their schemes. Criminals targeted social network users and customers of Russian hosting providers. Other important events include the discovery of a new backdoor program that enabled intruders to control infected computers remotely.VKontakte users under attackFraudsters are adapting […]

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