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Malicious spam campaign: Credit Card Overdue

30

Jun

2011

We are currently seeing a large scale malicious spam campaign that claims to be a “Credit Card Overdue” notice. The campaign is originating from one of the Cutwail spambot variants. The theme has no specific credit card brand, possibly because the spammer thought a generic template may entice more victims. The spam message claims the […]

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New Bots, Old Bots: Xarvester Returns

24

May

2011

There has been quite a shake up in the spamming underworld ever since SpamIt.com closed shop and the Rustock botnet was disrupted. A look at our weekly spam statistics shows that spam volume has dropped substantially, making this year (so far) a happy one for anti-spammers. While spam output has remained low, the statistics also […]

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Brazilian spambot spreads like fire

20

May

2011

A legitimate Canadian website is hosting a Trojan: www.getwiththeprogram.ca/IMG2713.zip The zip archive contains a file with a .cpl extension. Control Panel Files are normally used by the Windows Control Panel where each icon corresponds to a file, such as Access.cpl, Appwiz.cpl etc. Anyway, what a lot of people don’t know is that such files can […]

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