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Pump and dump spam waits for Hurricane Sandy

31

Oct

2012

Even stock scammers needed to put their plans on hold following the closure of stock markets for 2 days. In the typically worded email shown below, recipients are encouraged to buy into low-priced shares now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and trading has resumed. Interestingly, we see less topical spam than we used to. In […]

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Gamarue Malware Goes to Germany

30

Oct

2012

The hotel booking spam recently reported has made its way into German users’ inboxes. The email purporting to be from one of the Brenners Park-Hotel and Spa in Austria has a similar theme to its English counterpart as it contains confirmation and details on an alleged booking reservation.The email sample above was sent to a […]

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Work-at-home Scammers Target Brazil with Spamnet

05

Oct

2012

Background: Spamnet Tracking A year or so ago, as we were talking about malnets one day, it occurred to us that there was probably a lot of similarity between the networks run by the Bad Guys to infect victims with malware, and the networks used by spammers to run their spam campaigns. In fact, we […]

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