Posts Tagged ‘subdomain’

Tax refund spams are back

Mar

2012

It’s that time of the year when people in some parts of the world are filing their tax returns, and what better time for cyber crooks to trick them into falling prey for phishing attacks via emails. India has been reported in recent malware threat reports as one of the regions with high spam activity […]

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Has TechCrunch been hacked?

Jan

2012

Well, perhaps not.. but certainly, something very strange is going on. Back in June 2008, technology uber-blog TechCrunch announced its own news aggregator service called “TechNews” which had more than a passing similarity to Reddit. TechCrunch announced that the system was currently on one of its test servers. Whatever happened next to TechNews is lost […]

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A Package-scam Malware Attack

Oct

2011

Yesterday, WebPulse blocked over 100 attempts by our users to download a malicious executable. It’s an attack type I don’t remember specifically writing about in the past, so it’s worth a quick post. The sample I grabbed was named USPS_Invoice_10242011.PDF.exe. From the file name, I rather suspected that I would find that this was another […]

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