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Syrian Regime’s Opposition Gains Phishers’ Sympathy

05

Feb

2013

Recently, cybercriminals have been focusing on the conflict in Syria to incorporate current events in their cyber warfare. In December 2012, phishers mimicked the website of a well-known organization in the gulf with the motive of stealing a user’s email login credentials. The phishing site asked users to support the Syrian opposition by casting their […]

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Dissecting ‘Operation Ababil’ – an OSINT Analysis

28

Sep

2012

Provoked by a questionable online video posted on YouTube, Muslims from the around the world united in an apparent opt-in botnet crowdsourcing campaign aiming to launch a DDoS (denial of service attack) against YouTube for keeping the video online, and against several major U.S banks and financial institutions. Dubbed “Operation Ababil“, and operated by the […]

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Spammers Use Fake Tibetan Statement on the Olympics

11

Aug

2012

As early as March 2012, we have spotted a number of Tibetan-themed campaigns, and we’ve documented some of them through this blog. So far, the attacks are pretty consistent: they usually arrive as emails with pro-Tibetan sentiments as subjects, and have malicious file attachments.Very recently, however, we found one Tibetan-themed campaign that also touches a […]

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