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Inter-company invoice emails carry malware

18

Aug

2011

Have you received an unexpected “inter-company invoice” from a company for the period January 2010 – December 2010? If so, chances are that your computer is being targeted by cybercriminals who are using the disguise as a method to infect your computer with a Trojan horse. Companies such as Beazer Homes, KPMG, Miltek, Kraft Foods, […]

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Trojans spammed out in malicious wave of fake DHL emails

18

Aug

2011

There is a significant wave of malicious emails being spammed out presently, posing as notification messages from DHL. If you make the mistake of opening the attached ZIP file you will be putting your computer at risk of infection by a Trojan horse. There’s nothing new, of course, about cybercriminals disguising their attacks as notifications […]

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“exe” read backwards spells “malware”

18

Aug

2011

RIGHT TO LEFT OVERRIDE (RLO) is a unicode control character (U+202E) that reverses the character reading order from the traditional left-to-right, to right-to-left. This is mainly used for right-to-left languages (such as Arabic or Hebrew). We reported this trick last year but it has resurfaced extensively in the past week to trick users into opening […]

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