Posts Tagged ‘top level domain’

Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages

Apr

2013

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing .pw top-level domain (TLD) URLs. While it was originally a country code top-level domain for Palau, it is now available to the general public through Directi, who branded it as “Professional Web”. Figure 1. .pw TLD URL spam message increase Looking back at the last 90 days, .pw […]

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Apparent security certificate turns out to be Android malware – Offered app sneakily gains access to mTANs

Apr

2013

The email Potential victims receive an email with an impersonal form of address and more or less detailed information about the EV-SSL certification process. G Data SecurityLabs have registered four different email designs so far. Here is a selection of subject lines encountered so far: EV-SSL-Zertifikat-App im Smartphone Betriebssystem EV-SSL-Zertifikat. Smartphone Betriebssystem Extended Validation-Zertifikate im […]

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Banking Trojan Carberp: An Epitaph?

Apr

2013

The begining of spring seems to be an unsuccessful period of the year for cybercriminals in Eastern Europe. There is recent news referring to a neutralization of a group of hackers by joint cooperation between the Security Service of Ukraine with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on the web. These hackers […]

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Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages

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