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Home   »   Archives for July 2008

Another al Qaeda News Spam, Now on Video

  • Posted on:July 31, 2008 at 11:14 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Maydalene Salvador (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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It seems like al Qaeda are the terrorists of choice for spammers. Just recently, spammed messages claiming to contain news on Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorist network were found by Trend Micro researchers. Now here’s another one, and it comes with a video. The spam claims to be from El Comercio –…

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Tags: Al QaedaCNN

al Qaeda News Spam: A Malware Diversionary Tactic

  • Posted on:July 31, 2008 at 11:49 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Macky Cruz (Technical Communications)
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Malware criminals seem to never run out of tricks. This time they seem to have spun off sensational (but fake) news about the current Iraqi conflict. Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson recently encountered the following spam mail: Figure 1. Spam purporting to carry news about the latest Al Qaeda offensive. The spam even goes on…

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Tags: Al QaedaOsama Bin Laden

Feds Combing Facebook for Terrorists, Storm Says

  • Posted on:July 30, 2008 at 7:34 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    JM Hipolito (Technical Communications)
1

Can it be true that even terrorists are hooked on Facebook? And that the Feds are scouring the social networking site looking for them? Storm Worm puppet-masters seem to think so, or they just want everyone to go and find out if it’s true. Senior Threat Researcher David Sancho has recently discovered a spam run…

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Tags: FacebookFBIStorm

Malicious Spam News: UFO Lands in New York!

  • Posted on:July 30, 2008 at 7:31 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Jake Soriano (Technical Communications)
0

UFOs and alien invasion stories are historical favorites, and they tend to be crowd-pleasers in a weird sort of way. They were big in the 50s and 60s, but even today, a recent pop culture phenomenon like Indiana Jones relies not so much on present doomsday hype as much as on nostalgia. But check out…

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Tags: UFO

Another Fraudulent Trend Micro Site Appears

  • Posted on:July 29, 2008 at 5:03 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Mobile, Spam
  • Author:
    Aivee Cortez (Fraud Analyst)
0

Trend Micro senior developer TT Tsai discovered a sequel to the fake Trend Micro iClean tool. Our Web Threat Protection (WTP) add-on is being used as bait to download malware. An email message with content seemingly copy-pasted from the WTP page of the Trend Micro Taiwan site advertises a link (Figure 1) where a supposed…

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Tags: GmailHotmailWeb Threat Protection Add-onWTPYAhoo
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