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Use of Legit Online Translation Services in Pharmacy Spam

23

Jul

2013

For the last few months, Symantec has been observing pharmacy related spam attacks where spammers are using the legitimate Google Translate service to avoid anti spam filters. Most of the samples received were sent from hijacked email addresses from popular free mail services. The majority of the messages’ subject lines were promoting either online pharmacies or well-known tablets […]

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Compromised Sites Conceal StealRat Botnet Operations

22

Jul

2013

Advances in spam detection meant that spam operators had to find ways to circumvent new technologies. For instance, Asprox made significant improvements in their spam and module architecture whereas Pushdo made use of decoy network traffic.Recently, we have discovered a new simple method used by a spam botnet we named StealRat. It consists of 3 […]

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Android.Exprespam Authors Revamp Gcogle Play to Android Express’s Play

15

Jan

2013

When Android.Exprespam was discovered earlier this month, we quickly posted a blog warning users about the malware and discussing the details of the attack. Word spread quickly as the media, as well as the local authorities, pushed the news out to a wide audience. It seems like the scammers thought the news had reached enough […]

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