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Fake Seattle traffic ticket notification leads to malware

20

Jan

2012

Our partners at the City of Seattle sent us a warning today about a phishing campaign which targets users very close to home — specifically, Seattle Washington. They’re seeing spam mail circulating that claims to be from Seattle Department of Motor Vehicles, stating that the victim is charged with a traffic offense, and requesting that […]

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Are You Beta Testing Malware pt 2: Dissecting Fynloski’s Obfuscation

09

Jan

2012

This post is part two of two. In our previous post, we came across a couple of files that used some popular games as part of its social engineering technique. One of the files, which was named “diablo3-crack.exe” (after Diablo the video game series) is currently detected as Backdoor:Win32/Fynloski.A. It piqued our interest because we’re […]

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Are you beta testing malware?

07

Jan

2012

This post is part one of two. Popular games are often used by malware writers as social engineering bait as documented in previous blogs (“Dota Players Own3d” and “Keeping Kerrigan From Infection“). So, with a watchful eye for anything related to games used as an infection vector, we came across a couple of interesting files: […]

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