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Cruel Boston Marathon spam lures users to exploit pages

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Apr

2013

You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible scum? Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the Boston Marathon explosion to lure potential victims to […]

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Blackhole 2.0 Beta Tests In The Wild?

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Sep

2012

Recently it was announced via posts in underground forums and Pastebin posts that a new version of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK), version 2.0, had been released. (The original announcement was in Russian; an English translation has been provided by researcher Denis Laskov and may be found here.) We cannot confirm that BHEK 2.0 has […]

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Winwebsec gang responsible for FakeMacdef?

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May

2011

We’ve noticed a few odd rogue security software applications recently—although this type of threat is nothing new, these samples are interesting because they target the Mac OS X operating system. There have been several variants of a threat, which we detect as Rogue:MacOS_X/FakeMacdef, going around this month. As you would expect with any rogue antimalware […]

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