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Fraudulent e-Commerce Websites Exploit the Post-New Year’s Day Sales Drive

09

Jan

2013

As we welcome the New Year, we must be aware that the bad guys will use every opportunity to exploit events of a positive and negative nature. Yes, even the recent disastrous weather experienced on the east coast of the United States was exploited to try and obtain valuable information that could be used for identity […]

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Fake Virgin Blue Itinerary Email Soars with Malware

13

Dec

2012

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network detected a slew of fake Virgin Blue Itinerary emails. The email contains a malicious zip attachment called Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.zip, which contains the malicious binary file Virgin-Itinerary.pdf.XXXXX.exe. When clicked, the binary copies itself as svchost.exe in the c:\Documents and Settings\All Users directory and then adds a run registry key to run the […]

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‘Jacked frost’ Facebook scam goes wild and doubles over the weekend

10

Dec

2012

Last week we wrote a blog about a specific Facebook scam that appeared to spread rather aggresively. We have decided to nickname the scam "Jacked Frost." The Websense® ThreatSeeker™ network detected that the scam has increased and multiplied over the weekend – particularly on Saturday where we saw the amount of unique URLs related to this scam double. This shows how cyber crooks time […]

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