Posts Tagged ‘web addresses’

Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts

Jun

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks. In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported […]

Category General Written by Virus alerts 0 Comments

Web Attack Ahead of Tax Season

Feb

2012

At 3 AM, on February 6, 2012, Symantec Security Response observed spam carrying malicious links which target the upcoming tax season. The spam volume spiked between 6 AM and 1 PM, identifying over 200 unique URLs which lead to a Blackhole toolkit. A Blackhole toolkit compromises the machine by targeting various vulnerabilities on the victim's […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

Jan

2012

Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: The attack contains a .htm attachment and obfuscated JavaScript is embedded in the coding of the […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘web addresses’

Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts

Web Attack Ahead of Tax Season

Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us