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Margaret Thatcher’s Death Used in Cyber Attacks

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Apr

2013

As the world remembers former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, cyber attackers are participating too, but in their own tricky ways. Websense® Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected that attackers are sending malicious email spam with a topic referencing the death of Mrs. Thatcher. Actually, it is not new for an attacker to use a hot […]

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News Of Hugo Chavez’s Death Used in Malicious Email Campaigns

11

Mar

2013

Following news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (as reported by the BBC) the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has identified several malicious email campaigns that make reference to the President's death. Malware authors are increasingly using breaking global news events as a means of propagating lures that lead to malware. Here is a screenshot […]

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Honeyclient evasion techniques, Bible.org case.

25

Feb

2013

Hot on the heels of the NBC.com hack last week, Websense® Security Labs™ researchers were alerted by SANS to another high profile website compromise on Friday: bible.org. It appears that the offending code has now been removed from the bible.org website. At first glance, this seemed to be a run-of-the-mill “compromise, redirect, exploit” chain; however, closer analysis revealed […]

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