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At first glance this looked like a “standard” email-malware attack.  As with many similar attacks the email pretends to be carrying an eticket attachment – this time from Delta.  The zip file holds executable malware.  In case we weren’t sure this is malware here are some of the giveaways: The “flight” predates the email by about 2 […]

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Last year Symantec reported on the use of the Windows Help File (.hlp) extension as an attack vector in targeted attacks. Symantec telemetry is now increasingly seeing this attack vector being used in targeted attacks against industry and government sectors. The nefarious WinHelp files being used in these targeted attacks are detected by Symantec as […]

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An ongoing social engineering attack on Skype and other instant messaging applications has been gathering momentum over the last week. The attack, which looks to have started around September 29, has to date conned over 2.5 million clicks from unsuspecting users. The attack uses the common social engineering tactic of posting a link to instant […]

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