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.pw URLs in Spam Keep Showing Up

04

May

2013

Last week, Symantec posted a blog on an increase in spam messages with .pw URLs. Since then, spam messages with .pw URLs have begun showing up even more. Figure 1. .pw TLD spam message increase Symantec conducted some analysis into where these attacks are coming from in terms of IP spaces. As expected, Symantec observed a large […]

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The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence

02

May

2013

For that past several days, Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing hexadecimal obfuscated URLs. Hexadecimal character codes are simply the hexadecimal number to letter representation for the ASCII character set. To a computer, hexadecimal is just one out of the many systems for address expressions on the Internet.The following samples are different […]

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Hackers To Manage Your Apple ID, If Caught From Phishing Bait

30

Apr

2013

Phishers appear to have concentrated their fire on a relatively new target: Apple IDs. In recent days, we’ve seen a spike in phishing sites that try to steal Apple IDs.Upon looking at the URLS, we noted that there was a consistent pattern to the URLs of these phishing sites. They are under a folder named […]

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