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Over the past month, we have observed several large spam campaigns with malicious HTML attachments. We believe the botnet behind these campaigns is Cutwail. Here is data we collected, starting from the first day of 2012, illustrating spikes of spam with malicious HTML attachments: Attaching an HTML file to an email is a tactic we […]

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Last week Naked Security warned of a Facebook worm that was spreading on the social network, tricking users into believing that they were clicking on a link to an image. The bad news is that the attack appears to still appears to be spreading via Facebook’s chat system, exploiting compromised users’ accounts. An analysis by […]

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How does Symantec know it's the week of Thanksgiving? Because as the busiest travel day of the year day quickly approaches, the day just before Thanksgiving , there is a surge in fake email ticket confirmations that lead to viruses. Here is what a fake airline message looks like: If you inspect the HTML coding […]

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