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Iranian firefighters’ website compromised to serve VertexNet RAT

01

Nov

2012

Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network, we have detected that an Iranian website has been compromised to serve a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called VertexNet. This website does not have a high Alexa rank, but is one of a few cases which has caught our attention. The targeted website (reachable at the URL: hxxp://www.sarifire.ir) seems to be a portal documenting the activities of firefighters in the […]

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Breaking News: The malicious USA Presidential spam campaign has started…

10

Oct

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a spam campaign that tries to exploit recipients' interest in the current presidential campaign in the US. Specifically, we have detected thousands of emails with this kind of content: As noted recently, we are seeing an increasing number of spam campaigns with malicious links that lead to BlackHole exploit pages. This is also […]

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Phishing for Apple IDs

08

Oct

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a phishing campaign whose potential victims are holders of an Apple ID account. An Apple ID allows you to buy new apps, make a customer workshop reservation at an Apple Retail Store, or buy music and multimedia content from the iTunes Store. You can also buy applications for Mac OS X as well as […]

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