The death of Korean leader Kim Jong Il resulted in an outpour of reactions from many people all over the world. Some people were saddened by the loss, while some were quite jubilant, saying that Kim Jong Il was “a repressive leader”. Cybercriminals, on the other hand, only had one reaction to the incident, [...]
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We’ve seen the a particular kind of social engineering lure in spam runs in the past, where spammers leverage the death of a known celebrity or political figure. Recent examples of this include the death of Steve Jobs, and Amy Winehouse. In this spam run using Gadhafi’s death, however, a more compelling lure is [...] Even after a few weeks following Steve Jobs’ death, spammers are still taking advantage of his demise. We have previously reported about this in the following blog entries: Cybercriminals Remember Steve Jobs Through Facebook Scam Steve Jobs Proclaimed Alive by Spam This time, we received sample spammed messages promoting a supposed charity fund for [...] Lately, we have been seeing a renewed increase in volume of spam attacks that utilizes an exploit kit – specifically, the BlackHole exploit kit – to trigger a malicious payload. Specifically, we have seen this in the latest slew of Automated Clearing House (ACH) spam, and the more recent spam run related to Steve Jobs’ [...] After tricking users into viewing advertisements through a Facebook scam, cybercriminals are again capitalizing on the death of Steve Jobs through malicious spam. We were able to find spam messages that contain the text “Steve Jobs Alive” or “Steve Jobs Not Dead”. Another Steve Jobs-related spam we saw is in Portuguese, and includes a short [...] |
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