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Trend Micro security experts have not seen pump-and-dump spam campaigns in a fairly long time. In fact, some of the most recent attacks of this kind were last seen last year: Pump-and-Dump Spammers Take on Amazon “Storm Pump and Dump”: The Musical Taking Stock of Spam In a pump-and-dump attack, spammers raise the stock [...] News of another plane crash shook Americans on Thursday morning. Reportedly, a begrudged pilot, furious with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), intentionally crashed a small plane on the building that housed the agency’s office in Austin, Texas. Although the said incident was tagged “an isolated event” and not an act of terrorism, cybercriminals launched [...] Since the beginning of the year, Adobe and Microsoft have been under a bad light since most of the most recent attacks notably exploited the two companies’ software vulnerabilities. Adobe Reader and Acrobat, in particular, are currently cybercriminals’ favorite targets. When news that Adobe would be releasing an out-of-band security update to prevent an [...] Cybercriminals again exploited one of the most-awaited global sports events—the “2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics”—to propagate at least two of their malicious wares. They piggybacked on the Olympics fever to promote malware-ridden sites. In an attempt to affect as many users as possible, cybercriminals poisoned Google search results regarding the upcoming event. As usual, clicking the [...] It seems that a recent Windows “patch” has been the cause of a series of blue screen crashes after users install a so-called Microsoft security update. The said patch, MS10-015, is said to be linked to this system malfunction, which leaves user systems with blue-screen-of-death (BSoD) errors. According to an entry in the official Microsoft [...] |
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