Security researchers warn about new spam emails purporting to offer a free meal at McDonald's, but in reality contain malware.The rogue emails bear different subjects such as "Your favourite dishes are given for free" or "We invite everyone to the day of free food" and purport to come from @mcdonalds.com email a... |
21 June 2011
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A new malware distribution campaign is producing rogue emails purporting to come from the FBI and attempting to scare users into opening malicious attachments.Cyber criminals behind this attack are hoping to scare people into believing they are being investigated by federal authorities because they accessed illegal o... |
4 May 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Security researchers from Belgian email security provider MX Lab, warn about a new wave of malicious emails that pose as Facebook password change notifications and distribute a trojan.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Facebook Support. Your password has been changed! ID09687," where the ID may vary, and appear to o... |
11 April 2011
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A new malware distribution campaign that generates emails posing as delivery notifications from United Parcel Service (UPS) is currently hitting people's inboxes.The rogue emails bear a subject of "United Parcel Service notification" and have spoofed headers to appear as originating from a infojs@ups.com address... |
24 March 2011
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a joint project between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), has issued a warning that cybercriminals are responding to job ads with fake emails carrying trojans hidden as CVs.In order to outline the seriousness of this threat, the center presents a cas... |
20 January 2011
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Security researchers from Avira warn that fake Facebook password change emails are trying to trick users into opening a malicious attachment that installs a version of the Bredolab trojan.The rogue emails carry a subject of "Facebook password has been changed. ID####," where # stands for a random digit, and purport t... |
19 January 2011
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Armenian authorities arrested a 27-year-old man at the Yerevan airport yesterday, who is suspected of being responsible for running and creating the Bredolab botnet.The arrest is connected to a recent operation coordinated by the High Tech Crime Team of the Dutch national police, that was aimed at dismantling the bot... |
26 October 2010
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Security researchers warn of a new phishing and malware distribution attack targeting customers of Bank of America's Military Bank service.The Bank of America Military Bank provides financial solutions tailored for the specific needs of active and retired military personnel, as well as veterans or government e... |
7 September 2010
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Security researchers warn about new spam campaigns that abuse the name of the YouSendIt online service to trick users into running malware or visiting infected websites. Some of the rogue emails contain links to websites that carry malicious payloads, while others have a new variant of the Bredolab trojan attached.Th... |
6 August 2010
03:46 GMT |
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A new Bredolab distribution campaign produces fake emails masquerading as order-confirmation messages from Amazon. The attached archive contains a malicious executable file, which installs a new malware variant from the Bredolab family of trojans. According to email security provider MX Lab, the malicious communicat... |
17 May 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new malware distribution campaign masquerading as Facebook password reset notification e-mails is making the rounds. The attached .ZIP archives contain a Trojan downloader, which is used to deploy scareware on the compromised systems.The rogue emails have their From field spoofed in o... |
30 October 2009
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The breach of an online payroll processing system belonging to a large provider called PayChoice has surfaced after its customers have started receiving targeted malware distribution attacks via email. The attackers are looking to infect the company's clients with an information-stealing trojan after they only s... |
2 October 2009
08:42 GMT |
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The creators of the Bredolab computer trojan have launched a new distribution campaign, which delivers the malware via bogus order confirmation emails allegedly sent from online shops. Security researchers advise potentially curious users not to open the attachments.Email security company MX Lab warns that emails wit... |
28 August 2009
09:26 GMT |
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