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Increase in Pump and Dump Stock Spam

15
May
2013

In the last few weeks we have observed a drastic increase in “penny stock” spam emails. In 2011 Symantec published a blog entitled Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams, which also dealt with this type of spam.Penny stocks, also known as cent stocks, are shares in small companies that trade at low prices, […]

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Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

29
Sep
2011

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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