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Hijacked sites serve up exploits, SEO poisoning

13

Sep

2011

Our research team have discovered a rather nasty SEO poisoning scam over the last few days, targeting 9/11 related search terms (alongwith anything else they can get their hands on) to attempt the infection of vulnerable PCs. They use a combination of the Black Hole Exploit Kit and an interesting “on the fly” SEO poisoning […]

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Want to be friends on Facebook? Don’t click the link!

30

Aug

2011

Hot on the heels of last week’s malicious attachment spam, we are now observing another large malicious spam campaign – this time without attachments. Like the majority of last week’s campaigns, this spam is being sent out from the Cutwail botnet. The message arrives as a fake Facebook friend invite notification. The message looks convincing, […]

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Of Spam and Speeding

19

Aug

2011

Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file […]

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