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In response to Kaspersky’s statement that they were concerned about mobile malware, I provided a flurry of reasons why mobile malware epidemics don’t occur today. This may not be the case in the near future, however, as changes in the handset space is making the creation of malware far more attractive. Consumers lusting over [...] Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson recently reported of spammers using a feature called ‘delivery receipt request’ to verify if a certain email address exists. Delivery receipts are messages sent to the original sender of an email message to verify that the sent message has been delivered to the intended recipient. While message delivery receipt [...] In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google’s Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct it to malware serving [...] On September 27, Trend Micro researchers found phishing emails and sites pretending to be the Japanese localized site of Yahoo! Auctions. Japanese users, be warned. According to researchers, the said phishing mails were delivered to users with a subject title in Japanese, which when translated to English, reads “To Yahoo! Japan site users” and appearing [...] |
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