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News of Malicious Email Campaign Used As Social Engineering Bait

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Mar

2012

In an ironic twist of events, the news about the malicious email campaign that leverages political issues related to Tibet is now being used in a separate campaign resulting to malware infection. So far, we have encountered two email campaigns using this particular social engineering technique. The first one, according to reports, has a spoofed […]

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China Targets Macs Used by NGOs #Tibet

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Mar

2012

A new Mac backdoor exploiting CVE-2011-3544 (a Java vulnerability) is being reported. The backdoor appears to be connected to GhostNet. The malware is being used in targeted attacks against non-governmental organizations (NGO).Greg Walton published details of targeted mails sent to NGOs related to Tibet. The message contains a link to: dns.assyra.com. Read more from Walton […]

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Linsanity Leads to Targeted Malware Attacks

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Feb

2012

When there are celebrity stories such as the death of Whitney Houston in the press, we expect to see BlackHat SEO attacks and other cybercriminal campaigns using these themes to distribute malware. However, a recent targeted attack against Tibetan activists caught our attention. The lure in this case was the story of Jeremy Lin, the […]

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