Cyber Monday is basically the online retailers’ version of Black Friday and is considered the busiest day of the year for online shoppers and sellers alike. The National Retail Federation estimates that 96.6 million Americans to shop this Cyber Monday, an 11.5 million increase from 2008’s 85 million, while 87.1% of retailers are going to [...]
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Social Engineering Watch: Cyber Monday
Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season in the United States, the top spam-sending country in the world. The holiday season ushers sales and big discounts for users. Unfortunately, however, this also means that spammers will be rushing to offer consumers bogus promos and discounts. Seems even cybercriminals have something to be thankful for, too.
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Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful
Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of another ZBOT spam campaign. The emails bear subjects such as “your photos” and “some jerk has posted your photos.” They inform the recipients that someone has posted their photos without their permission on a site and has sent the link to their friends. The recipient is intended to [...]
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Another ZBOT Spam Run
The activities of the infamous Koobface botnet have been a frequent topic of discussion here at the Malware Blog. Some security analysts recently commented that the botnet has added a new tool to its arsenal as a new alleged “Koobface variant” has been targeting the VoIP application, Skype.
The supposed “Koobface variant,” detected by Trend Micro [...]
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“New Koobface Variant” Targets Skype
Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of spammed messages that purported to come from Media Service. The email bears the subject, “Congratulations,” and informs users that they won a Macbook Air. It also entices users to open the attached .ZIP file, which supposedly contains the details. Of course, the attachment does not hold any [...]
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Win a Macbook Air, Get Malware
