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Security Week In Review, April 2-6

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Apr

2012

Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reach to the world’s most populous nation and the public white board Pastebin appears to be […]

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Twitter mention spam goes for the gut

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Mar

2012

In the swirling seas of spam emails that our analysts come across every day, the anti-stomach-fat/six-pack-abs theme repeats itself quite regularly. Unless they are tricked by some fiendishly clever social engineering (see here and here), most email recipients know better than to follow links to sites promising ultimate-waistline-thin-ness. But what happens when these links are […]

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Anonymous Supporters Tricked into Installing Zeus Trojan

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Mar

2012

In 2011, dozens of Anonymous members who participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in support of Anonymous hacktivism causes were arrested. In these DDoS attacks, supporters using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon denial-of-service (DoS) tool would voluntarily include their computer in a botnet for attacks in support of Anonymous. In the wake Anonymous member arrests […]

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