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  • Storm Worm is back warns FBI

    Past Storm Worm distributions have been linked to holiday e-card links where recipients are asked to click on a link to receive a greeting card, the FBI said. The mails contain the phrase "F.B.I.vs.facebook," according to the warnings, and ask…
    31 July 2008
    Tags: Crime • Enforcement • Malicious • Storm • Links • Spreading

  • Storm botnet launches UK phishing assault

    Like the first campaign, the second tried to dupe recipients out of their banking account usernames and passwords.The Finnish security firm F-Secure connected one of the IP addresses used in the Halifax phish to domains previously used by the…
    10 January 2008
    Tags: Dns • Gregg Keizer • Banks • Storm • Phishing • Conduct

  • Spammers pose as private detectives

    Those particular emails purported to be news alerts that lured recipients into inadvertently downloading malware by enticing them with sensationalistic headlines such as "Chinese missile shoots down USA satellite" and "230 dead as storm batters…
    20 November 2007
    Tags: Malware • Hard Drives • Emails • Storm • Recipients • Brad Reed

  • Spam up, PDF spam down

    Officials at Sophos, another security vendor, agreed that PDF spam was more trouble than it was worth for recipients - since they had to actually open an attachment to read the message - and so spammers weren't getting the desired results.
    07 September 2007
    Tags: Technique • Board • Spammers • Spam • Rates • Symantec

  • Storm worm spoofs YouTube

    A weekend spam blast pretends to be from YouTube, but actually tries to hack your computer.The spam invites recipients to see themselves in a YouTube video, but the included link directs them to a site that downloads a package of a dozen different…
    28 August 2007
    Tags: Malware • Package • Worm • Spam • Hack • Downloads

  • Storm Trojan returns as Fourth of July spam

    Email users are being warned to be wary of 4 July malicious spam messages playing off the American day of independence by security experts.The Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) team at email and Internet content security provider…
    04 July 2007
    Tags: Messages • Spam • American • Security Experts • Malicious • Storm

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  • The Internet floods with bogus e-cards

    It's an interesting cat-and-mouse game between the bad guys and the good guys.Apparently, they've found that they can be very successful in getting these through by not having it be formatted as an HTML message," Green said.All recipients have to…
    17 August 2007
    Tags: Viruses • Trojan • Alert • Fake • Names • Links
 

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