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The pastebin trend (cont.)

19

Aug

2011

In June during some of the LulzSec pastes, I published a brief blog post on our sister blog (Scrapbook). In that post, I discussed a spike in Pastebin web transactions due to the LulzSec information drops and other controversial news within the information security community. To get a more precise view of when the spikes […]

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Email malware levels skyrocket

18

Aug

2011

Earlier this week we described a huge malware outbreak with increases of over 500%. The graph we presented showed a tapering off after the peak of the attack. The similar attacks in March and April also showed this trend – with a large initial outbreak followed by gradually decreasing spikes as the month went on. […]

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Social Network Attacks Surge

30

Jun

2011

Exploiting the popularity of social networks for the purposes of distributing spam, malware, and phishing attacks is quite a common technique these days. Spam attacks via social networks grew dramatically between April and June 2011. Over this period, we monitored and analyzed social network spam attacks that used three popular social networking sites—Facebook, Twitter, and […]

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