Adding to the ever-increasing wave of post-election spam runs, we have recently received reports of yet more U.S. election-related threats. This time, spam messages promoting the (bogus) Canadian pharmacy are sent with sensational, and somewhat offensive, news about Barack Obama and John McCain as message subjects.
Here are a couple of email sample screenshots:
Figure 1.The sensationalized [...]
A pair of “highly critical” vulnerabilities in the cross-platform VLC Media Player could put millions of users at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from security researchers.
The issues, reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5, could let hackers take complete control of compromised machines through rigged media files. VideoLAN, the open-source group [...]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat.
During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha Siekmann, a Support Engineer at Cloudmark (disclosure), discovered that [...]
Just three days after Adobe shipped a patch with fixes for a critical Adobe Reader vulnerability, hackers are using booby-trapped PDF files to fire exploits against Windows users.
[ SEE: Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now ]
The in-the-wild attacks, first spotted by the SANS Internet Storm Center, follows the public release of proof-of-concept exploits at [...]
When it comes to children and the Internet, most parents focus on safe Web browsing. That’s understandable, given that the Web can sometimes seem like one big Red Light District. But the Web isn’t the only source of objectionable material online. E-mail can be just as bad.
