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Spammers Bless New Pope with Spam

19

Mar

2013

With the amount of media coverage surrounding this year’s papal conclave and inauguration, it’s hardly a surprise that cybercriminals have taken advantage of this event to victimize users. We recently spotted spam that use newly-elected Pope Francis as the subject.These email messages use the new pope and controversies surrounding the Catholic Church to pique the […]

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The Brazilian Phishing World Cup

11

Mar

2013

The 2014 FIFA World Cup has already kicked off, at least for Brazilian bad guys. Next year?s big event in Brazil has become one of the most prominent tactics used by Latin American cybercriminals as they unleash a real avalanche of phishing messages, fraudulent prizes and giveaways, malicious domains, fake tickets, credit card cloning, banking […]

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AlbaBotnet, another new crime wave in Latin American cyberspace

05

Mar

2013

After the recent emergence of the criminal PiceBOT in Latin America, AlbaBotnet has joined the growing ranks of regional IT crime. It revolves around online pharming, with a view to delivering targeted phishing attacks which steal information from the online accounts of two major Chilean banks. According to the data we have processed, this campaign […]

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