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The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence

May

2013

For that past several days, Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing hexadecimal obfuscated URLs. Hexadecimal character codes are simply the hexadecimal number to letter representation for the ASCII character set. To a computer, hexadecimal is just one out of the many systems for address expressions on the Internet.The following samples are different […]

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Hackers To Manage Your Apple ID, If Caught From Phishing Bait

Apr

2013

Phishers appear to have concentrated their fire on a relatively new target: Apple IDs. In recent days, we’ve seen a spike in phishing sites that try to steal Apple IDs.Upon looking at the URLS, we noted that there was a consistent pattern to the URLs of these phishing sites. They are under a folder named […]

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Cybercriminals Quickly Take Advantage of Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast, MIT Shooting

Apr

2013

No less than a day or so after we discovered the spam campaign taking advantage of the Boston Marathon bombing, we came upon yet another spam campaign, very similar to the previous one except this time it uses the Texas fertilizer plant explosion as a lure. The fertilizer plant explosion occurred a mere few days […]

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The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence

Hackers To Manage Your Apple ID, If Caught From Phishing Bait

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