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Header Spoofing Hides Malware Communication

Jul

2013

Spoofing – whether in the form of DNS, legitimate email notification, IP, address bar – is a common part of Web threats. We’ve seen its several incarnations in the past, but we recently found a technique known as header spoofing, which puts a different spin on evading detection.Header spoofing is when a URL appears to […]

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Use of Legit Online Translation Services in Pharmacy Spam

Jul

2013

For the last few months, Symantec has been observing pharmacy related spam attacks where spammers are using the legitimate Google Translate service to avoid anti spam filters. Most of the samples received were sent from hijacked email addresses from popular free mail services. The majority of the messages’ subject lines were promoting either online pharmacies or well-known tablets […]

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Info Stealer Poses as Google Chrome Installer

May

2012

We recently found some suspicious looking URLs which suggest that a malicious file named ChromeSetup.exe is hosted in domains like Facebook and Google. The finding, which we were able to flag during our analysis of data processed by the Trend MicroT Smart Protection NetworkT definitely caught our attention. Looking at data from the Smart Protection […]

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