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Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

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Feb

2012

Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a malicious attachment (in this case, a .doc file although there are rogue PDF files in circulation […]

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Stratfor customers targeted by cybercriminals

14

Feb

2012

Cybercriminals are continuing to use a social engineering trick to lure users for their malware campaigns. This time, they targeted customers of Stratfor – a subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis. Attacks against Stratfor clients began after a reported breach of their customer database. The spammed email contains an attached PDF file named “stratfor.pdf”. Upon opening […]

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Anatomy of a Crimeware Syndicate, Part III

14

Feb

2012

Third of our three part series on the Anatomy of a Crimeware Syndicate, as delineated by Derek Manky, Senior Security Strategist at Fortinet. In part one we discussed the fundamental infrastructure and hierarchy of a crimeware syndicate. Part two talked about the threat landscape and major botnet takedowns. Now part three looks at specific threats […]

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