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Spammed Messages Cash In on London 2012 Olympics

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Jun

2012

Cybercriminals are known opportunists. They will take advantage of anything newsworthy and craft their schemes around (for example) sporting events like FIFA and the Olympics. As the London 2012 Olympics opening event draws near, we can expect a surge of spammed messages that leverage this event. Below are some spammed messages we’ve spotted using the […]

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Compromised WordPress sites Drive Users to Blackhole Exploit Kit

22

Mar

2012

We were alerted to reports of a mass compromise of WordPress sites that lead to CRIDEX infection. To lure users to these compromised sites, the cybercriminals behind this employed spammed messages purporting to come from known legitimate sources such Better Business Bureau and LinkedIn, just to name a few. These spam use social engineering tactics […]

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MSRT March: Three Hioles in one

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Mar

2012

In a previous post, we discussed Win32/Dorkbot, one of the major threat families included in the March 2012 release of MSRT. In this post, we discuss the other inclusions, Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky.Win32/HiolesSimilar to last month’s focus on Win32/Pramro, Win32/Hioles is another trojan that resides on the computer and functions as a proxy server. The […]

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