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Malware Redirects South Korean Users To Phishing Sites

Jun

2013

Online banking threats have been prevalent for many years, but recently they seem to be determined to expand beyond their usual targets. In the past few weeks and months, we’ve seen various attacks target Korean banks using various techniques.The latest attack we’ve found uses a Trojan that redirects users of various Korean banks to malicious […]

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Beware of Fake Gift Offers for Father’s Day

Jun

2013

A lot of people are counting down the days until they can express their appreciation and love towards their dads by giving them gifts for Father’s Day, which is celebrated on June 16. Last month we published a blog called Spammers Continue to Exploit Mother’s Day, now it’s the turn of Father’s Day, as spam […]

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Worm Creates Copies in Password-Protected Archived Files

May

2013

Typically users archive file to lump several files together into a single file for convenience or to simply save storage space. However, we uncovered a worm that creates copies of itself even on password-protected archived files. We acquired a sample of a worm (detected as WORM_PIZZER.A) that propagates using a particular WINRAR command line (see […]

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