My spam honeypots yesterday yielded a nice example of a spam attack being used to lure people to servers hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit, which we've blogged about several times in the last six months or so. The spam arrived the evening before. Here's how it looked: Clicking on one of the links took […]
We have recently come across a new wave of W32.Xpaj.B samples. We first met this complex file infector virus in 2009, and since then the threat has been operating and mounting an ad-clicking scam in order to generate revenue. After a few months of rest, the threat seems to be back. Figure 1. Increase […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that telecoms firm Nortel Networks was repeatedly breached by Chinese hackers for almost a decade. The newspaper cited Brian Shields, a former Nortel employee who led an internal investigation into the security breaches, and published claims that the hackers stole seven passwords from the company’s top executives – including […]
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