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Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages

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Apr

2013

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing .pw top-level domain (TLD) URLs. While it was originally a country code top-level domain for Palau, it is now available to the general public through Directi, who branded it as “Professional Web”. Figure 1. .pw TLD URL spam message increase Looking back at the last 90 days, .pw […]

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Tragic Spam

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Apr

2013

Whenever something awful happens in the world, both the good and the bad come to the surface: bad guys doing bad things like we saw in Boston last week, and good guys rushing to random people’s aid in the wake of the explosions. At FortiGuard, we’ve seen an uptick in bad guys trying to take […]

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Japanese One-Click Fraud Campaign Comes to Google Play

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Apr

2013

One-click fraud refers to a scam that attempts to lure users interested in adult-related video to a site that attempts to trick them into registering for a paid service. For many years, it has been common to see this type of fraud on computers. As smartphone usage has increased, so has the number of these […]

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