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Blackhole Spam Run Evades Detection Using Punycode

20

May

2013

The Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) spam run has already assumed various disguises during its course. Some variants have taken various forms, such as official bank notice, cable provider email update, social networking email, and fake courier notification.Lately, we have seen a slew of spam crafted as a notice from the popular retail chain Walmart. However, […]

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LinkedIn Spam: The Repeat

19

Dec

2012

Another slew of spam claiming to originate from LinkedIn has hit the wild Internet in less than 24 hours, according to the real time recording and tracking of email threats by our researchers in the AV Labs.The malicious spam, this time, poses a question then gives a less-than-stellar answer to it, something criminals are counting on that recipients […]

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Fake Virgin Blue Itinerary Email Soars with Malware

13

Dec

2012

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network detected a slew of fake Virgin Blue Itinerary emails. The email contains a malicious zip attachment called Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.zip, which contains the malicious binary file Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.XXXXX.exe. When clicked, the binary copies itself as svchost.exe in the c:\Documents and Settings\All Users directory and then adds a run registry key to run the […]

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