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Malicious URLs in Fake Craigslist Emails

07

Jun

2012

Today, Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has seen a barrage of malicious emails pretending to be automated notifications from Craigslist. These emails instruct the recipient to click a link to complete a Craigslist request. The URLs in these emails redirect the user to malicious web sites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit. So far we have seen over 150,000 of these […]

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Rise of .in URLs in Spam

15

May

2012

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. This chart shows percentage of spam containing .in URLs: While there were few daily spikes last year, clearly there has been more activity in the last two months. Looking back at last year, the ccTLD for […]

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Mother’s Day a Lure for Fake Gift Offers

11

May

2012

Mother’s Day is normally celebrated by people to express their love for their mothers. We sometimes buy them special gifts such as watches, antiques, greeting cards, or flowers. Spammers also celebrate Mother’s Day, but with a different goal in mind.As always, spammers like to take advantage of special occasions and festivals. Currently we see a […]

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