Posts Tagged ‘top level domains’

Short-URL Services May Hide Threats

Jul

2013

In a recent post, AppAppeal ranked the most popular URL shorteners. The top five includes TinyURL, Goo.gl, Bit.ly, Ow.ly and is.gd. Unfortunately, these helpful services are also used to hide a large number of malicious URLs. This result has made me want to learn more about malicious links that may be hidden behind these shortcuts.For […]

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.pw Hit and Run Spam with Royal Baby Trend

Jul

2013

Last month Symantec posted few blogs (here and here) on an increase in spam messages with .pw URLs.Since then the volume of URLs with .pw domains has considerably decreased. At the beginning of May the peak volume .pw domains accounted for about 50 percent of all spam URLs. Currently, .pw domains account for less than […]

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Use of Legit Online Translation Services in Pharmacy Spam

Jul

2013

For the last few months, Symantec has been observing pharmacy related spam attacks where spammers are using the legitimate Google Translate service to avoid anti spam filters. Most of the samples received were sent from hijacked email addresses from popular free mail services. The majority of the messages’ subject lines were promoting either online pharmacies or well-known tablets […]

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