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Russian cybercriminals release new DIY DDoS malware loader
By Dancho Danchev On a daily basis, new market entrants into the cybercrime ecosystem attempt to monetize their coding skills by releasing and branding new DIY DDoS malware loaders. Largely dominated...
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PayPal ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails serve malware
By Dancho Danchev Sticking to their proven tactic of systematically rotating the impersonated brands, cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating PayPal, in an attempt...
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Cybercriminals impersonate Delta Airlines, serve malware
By Dancho Danchev Following the recently launched malicious campaigns impersonating KLM and American Airlines, cybercriminals are once again busy impersonating yet another company, this time it’s Delta...
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‘Your UPS Invoice is Ready’ themed emails serve malware
By Dancho Danchev Over the past 24 hours, cybercriminals launched yet another massive spam campaign, impersonating the United Parcel Service (UPS), in an attempt to trick its current and prospective...
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Bogus Skype ‘Password successfully changed’ notifications lead to malware
By Dancho Danchev Skype users, beware! Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating Skype, in an attempt to trick Skype users that their password has been successfully...
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RSA Conference Europe 2012 – recap
By Dancho Danchev As many of you know, Webroot recently attended Europe’s most prestigious security conference, RSA Europe 2012, where I held a presentation on the topic of “Cyber Jihad vs...
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Cybercriminals impersonate Verizon Wireless, serve client-side exploits and...
By Dancho Danchev Verizon Wireless customers, beware! For over a week now, cybercriminals have been persistently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating the company, in an attempt to trick...
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Spamvertised ‘BT Business Direct Order’ themed emails lead to malware
By Dancho Danchev Over the past 24 hours, cybercriminals have been spamvertising millions of emails targeting customers of BT’s Business Direct in an attempt to trick its users into executing the...
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Cybercriminals spamvertise millions of British Airways themed e-ticket...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercrimianals are currently mass mailing millions of emails in an attempt to trick British Airways customers into executing the malicious attachment found in the spamvertised...
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Cybercriminals spamvertise millions of bogus Facebook notifications, serve...
By Dancho Danchev Recently, cybercriminals spamvertised yet another massive email campaign, impersonating the world’s most popular social network – Facebook. It was similar to a previously profiled...
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Nuclear Exploit Pack goes 2.0
By Dancho Danchev In times when the market leading Black Hole Exploit Kit continues to gain market share, competing products are prone to emerge. What is the competition up to? Has it managed to...
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BofA ‘Online Banking Passcode Reset’ themed emails serve client-side exploits...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails, in an attempt to trick Bank of America customers into clicking on the exploit and malware-serving link found in the...
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‘ADP Immediate Notification’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
By Dancho Danchev Newsflash, the cybercriminals behind the recently profiled malicious campaign impersonating Bank of America, launched yet another massive spam campaign, this time targeting ADP...
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USPS ‘Postal Notification’ themed emails lead to malware
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating The United States Postal Service (USPS), in an attempt to trick its customers into downloading and executing...
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‘Fwd: Scan from a Xerox W. Pro’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
By Dancho Danchev On a periodic basis, malicious cybercriminals spamvertise millions of emails attempting to trick end users into thinking that they’ve received a scanned document. Upon clicking on the...
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‘Your Discover Card Services Blockaded’ themed emails serve client-side...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating Discover, in an attempt to trick cardholders into clicking on the client-side exploits serving URLs found...
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‘Payroll Account Holded by Intuit’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
By Dancho Danchev Intuit users, beware! Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating Intuit’s Direct Deposit Service, in an attempt to trick its users into clicking on the...
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‘American Express Alert: Your Transaction is Aborted’ themed emails serve...
By Dancho Danchev American Express cardholders, beware! Over the past week, cybercriminals mass mailed millions of emails impersonating American Express, in an attempt to trick its customers into...
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Cybercriminals abuse major U.S SMS gateways, release DIY Mail-to-SMS flooders
By Dancho Danchev Largely driven by a widespread adoption of growth and efficiency oriented strategies applied by cybercriminals within the entire spectrum of the cybercrime ecosystem, we’ve witnessed...
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‘PayPal Account Modified’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
By Dancho Danchev A cybercriminal/group of cybercriminals that’s been responsible for a series of malware attacks that I’ve been recently profiling, continues to systematically rotate the impersonated...
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