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Traffic Ticket…or Malicious Attachment?

22

Aug

2011

In the past we have seen malicious attacks pretending to be shipment notifications from various parcel delivery services. Now the New York State DMV has become the latest “brandjacking” victim for a series of malware attacks. Here is what the fake message looks like: Ticket-064-211.zip is the name of the malicious attachment, and it is […]

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News Feeds Abused by Spammers, Again!

22

Aug

2011

In the past few weeks, we have observed an old spam tactic re-emerging. Spammers are again using news feed to populate the subject header of spam messages. This technique has been used in the past in the form of directory harvesting attacks to gather valid email addresses. However, these attacks usually lasted for only one […]

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Win32/Kelihos, Recruiting in a Country Near You

17

Aug

2011

As part of our botnet monitoring initiative, we recently stumbled across an interesting piece of news. The Win32/Kelihos botnet, a likely successor to Win32/Waledac and Win32/Nuwar (the infamous Storm worm), is now sending spam to recruit money mules. We captured two different spam templates used by the bot to generate spam messages. As shown in […]

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