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Cybercriminals Steal News Headlines for KULUOZ Spam Campaigns

  • Posted on:June 10, 2014 at 12:58 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Maria Manly (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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Last April, we reported a KULUOZ spam campaign using the South Korean ferry sinking tragedy, one that came hot at the heels of the actual event itself. KULUOZ, as we tackled during that blog entry, is a malware that is distributed by the Asprox botnet. It can download certain strains of FAKEAV and ZACCESS malware…

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Tags: ASPROXbotnetcybercriminalKULUOZsocial engineering lurespam campaignspam mail

Compromised Sites Conceal StealRat Botnet Operations

  • Posted on:July 21, 2013 at 11:48 pm
  • Posted in:Botnets, Spam
  • Author:
    Jessa De La Torre (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Advances in spam detection meant that spam operators had to find ways to circumvent new technologies. For instance, Asprox made significant improvements in their spam and module architecture whereas Pushdo made use of decoy network traffic. Recently, we have discovered a new simple method used by a spam botnet we named StealRat. It consists of…

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Tags: ASPROXPUSHDOSpamspam botnetStealRat

Asprox Reborn

  • Posted on:March 4, 2013 at 7:12 am
  • Posted in:Botnets, Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Nart Villeneuve (Senior Threat Researcher)
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While spam botnets are well-known for sending out unwanted ads, especially for “rogue” pharmaceutical companies, they are also an integral component of malware distribution. In addition to sending out their own malware so that they can increase the size of their botnet, the miscreants behind these operations also earn revenue by installing additional malware supplied…

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Tags: ASPROXbotnetSpam

YAMSIA (Yet Another Massive SQL Injection Attack)

  • Posted on:July 18, 2008 at 4:31 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Robert McArdle (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Clever mnemonics aside, last week we have seen another large scale SQL injection attack (or YAMSIA, if you prefer), this time being orchestrated by a botnet that has become known as Asprox—but first, a history lesson. The code behind the Asprox botnet seems to have been around for quite some time now, but it was…

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Tags: ASPROXBotnetsSQL injection attacks

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