Posts Tagged ‘spammed messages’

Skype Messages Spreading DORKBOT Variants

Oct

2012

As reported earlier by Rik Ferguson, users are facing more waves of Skype spammed messages. These attacks are being used to distribute various threats, including ransomware and infostealers.These attacks, which arrive as Skype messages, ask if the user has a new profile picture:The link (which includes the username of the recipient) goes to a file […]

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Threats Get Trickier with Versatility and Social Engineering

Sep

2012

Cybercriminals intending to take your data find various ways through social engineering. For example, in our investigation of what seemed to be a run-of-the mill spam run leading to a pharma site, we’ve uncovered the same points we have raised in our eguide, How Social Engineering Works. The spam run starts as an email notification […]

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Java Zero-Days and the Blackhole Exploit Kit

Sep

2012

Last week’s Java zero-day vulnerability has been exploited by many exploit kits in the wild, including the familiar Blackhole Exploit Kit.In this blog entry, we thought we would describe some of the outbreaks related to this attack we’ve seen in the past week or so. Our automated processes that are a part of the Trend […]

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