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New spam sources in the making

13

Sep

2011

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes. In particular, from September 2010 the US, for a long time the leading spam distributor, began to lose ground. For several months now it hasn’t even made it into the Top 10 leading sources of spam […]

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Ransomware posing as Microsoft

06

Sep

2011

We’ve found yet another malware piece, this time it is a ransomware to take some of your money. Once you get infected (you can receive it in a number of different ways, most likely via spam messages and P2P), your computer is restarted. What for? Well, the malware installs itself to run every time your […]

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Bad guys want your Twitter passwords – don’t be phished via a DM attack!

06

Sep

2011

We continue to see Twitter users being targeted by criminal campaigns designed to phish passwords for the site. The problem is that often they are disguised as direct messages (DMs in Twitter parlance) from your online friends. The latest attack comes in the form of a DM from one of your Twitter acquaintances: when did […]

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