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A Refresher on Spam and Exploits

13

Oct

2011

Lately, we have been seeing a renewed increase in volume of spam attacks that utilizes an exploit kit – specifically, the BlackHole exploit kit – to trigger a malicious payload. Specifically, we have seen this in the latest slew of Automated Clearing House (ACH) spam, and the more recent spam run related to Steve Jobs’ […]

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Trojan targets Japanese bank customers through spam

14

Sep

2011

Recent malware trends clearly show that financial gain is one of the top reasons to be on the dark side of the Internet. Countless threats targeting banking information come and go each day. Stealing banking information is now easier than ever with the availability of toolkits such as Spyeye and Zbot that allow malware authors […]

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Pharma Spammers Brandjack YouTube

03

Jun

2011

Spam messages promoting pharmaceutical products have been perhaps the most commonly seen spam attacks over the past several years. Pharmaceutical products are deceptively marketed through spam emails employing a variety of obfuscation techniques. Symantec recently observed a pharmaceutical spam campaign abusing the YouTube brand. Similar spam campaigns abusing popular brands have been seen in the […]

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