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Fake Twitter Confirmation Email Points to Blackhole Exploit

Fake Twitter Confirmation Email Points to Blackhole Exploit

on June 13, 2012

Yesterday, we wrote about the return of Amazon spam, and how criminals behind this campaign led users to have their software exploited via the Blackhole exploit kit, especially if they’re not properly patched. At the end of that entry, we included …

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Amazon Spam is Back, Blackhole Exploit in Tow

Amazon Spam is Back, Blackhole Exploit in Tow

on June 12, 2012

Recently, we’ve seen an Amazon spam in the wild that looks like this: click to enlarge The sender’s name was deliberately called “Amazon.com” to make the spam appear legitimate. What gives away this particular spam, however, is that this sends to …

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Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers

Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers

on May 21, 2012

In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting …

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VIPRE® Report for April: Be Careful When Browsing Social Networking Sites

VIPRE® Report for April: Be Careful When Browsing Social Networking Sites

on May 9, 2012

As you may know, cybercriminals are no longer limited to Twitter and Facebook as their launchpads for spams, scams, and malware-laden site link. Tumblr and Pinterest are just some of the new social networking sites that online criminals are now …

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Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

on April 16, 2012

There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: Click to Enlarge The link in question – fuuut(dot)tk, was …

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Fake Linkedin Mails Lead To Cridex

Fake Linkedin Mails Lead To Cridex

on March 16, 2012

Be advised that there are fake Linkedin invitation reminders in circulation sending users to a BlackHole exploit which attempts to drop Cridex onto the PC. Cridex is a rather nasty piece of work that does everything from target banks and …

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VIPRE® Report for February 2012: Rogue AV Remains a Popular Threat Tactic

VIPRE® Report for February 2012: Rogue AV Remains a Popular Threat Tactic

on March 13, 2012

These past few months, the news has been all about who got hacked, what softwares’ vulnerable and should be patched, and what the latest Web threat is like, which ranges from simple spam to those deemed as advanced persistent threats …

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US Securities and Exchange Commission Spam Leads to Exploit and Stealer

US Securities and Exchange Commission Spam Leads to Exploit and Stealer

on March 2, 2012

When one of our colleagues in Malta received an email in his GMail inbox that purports to originate from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he didn’t think twice about sending it over to the AV Labs for analysis. …

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Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

on February 20, 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 …

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Phishers Bank on Tax Season

Phishers Bank on Tax Season

on February 8, 2012

With the U.S. currently in tax season, online criminals have, once again, sought to take advantage of this. Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers, spotted a phishing email posing as Intuit Inc., a company that “develops financial and tax …

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