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Stratfor customers targeted by cybercriminals

14

Feb

2012

Cybercriminals are continuing to use a social engineering trick to lure users for their malware campaigns. This time, they targeted customers of Stratfor – a subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis. Attacks against Stratfor clients began after a reported breach of their customer database. The spammed email contains an attached PDF file named “stratfor.pdf”. Upon opening […]

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Independent social welfare site hacked to serve malware?

26

Jan

2012

We received a submission from one of our customers that downloaded some suspicious files from a certain website. We checked the files, confirmed that they are actually malicious and added detection for them as Trojan:BAT/Delosc.A. Everything seemed normal, until we looked at the website that the files were downloaded from, which suggested that there’s more […]

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Fake Seattle traffic ticket notification leads to malware

20

Jan

2012

Our partners at the City of Seattle sent us a warning today about a phishing campaign which targets users very close to home — specifically, Seattle Washington. They’re seeing spam mail circulating that claims to be from Seattle Department of Motor Vehicles, stating that the victim is charged with a traffic offense, and requesting that […]

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