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Charter flight reservation emails carry dangerous malware payload

10

Jul

2012

Sophos – Once again, email users are being reminded to be wary of unsolicited email attachments – as a criminal gang spams out an attack designed to infect Windows computers.The emails, which all have a subject line of “Charter flight reservation”, claim to be related to the reservation of a charter flight for multiple people.However, […]

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You pig! Malware-laced emails spammed out posing as incriminating photos

05

Jul

2012

A widespread malware attack has been spammed out, posing as incriminating photos of the recipient which could get them in trouble with their partner.The emails, which have the subject line “You pig!”, are designed to infect Windows users and carry a malware attachment posing as a digital photograph. Subject: You pig! Message body:You should be […]

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Microsoft Update and The Nightmare Scenario

05

Jun

2012

About 900 million Windows computers get their updates from Microsoft Update. In addition to the DNS root servers, this update system has always been considered one of the weak points of the net. Antivirus people have nightmares about a variant of malware spoofing the update mechanism and replicating via it. Turns out, it looks like […]

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