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Tax Day Extortion: PowerWare Crypto-ransomware Targets Tax Files

  • Posted on:March 31, 2016 at 5:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Ransomware, Spam
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As we are certain about some aspects of life, the same can be said about cybercrime. Tax Day draws closer in the U.S., and as millions of Americans are in the process of filing their taxes, cybercriminals are also stepping in to make this task profitable for them and difficult for their victims. We have seen recent incidents of organizations falling for business email compromise (BEC) schemes related to tax filing; now, it looks like online extortionists have joined the fray as well.

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Tags: crypto-ransomwaremacro malwarespam mail

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

Home Court Advantage: BANLOAD Joins FIFA World Cup

  • Posted on:May 30, 2014 at 1:18 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Fernando Mercês (Senior Threat Researcher)
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I wrote a blog entry last week about fraudulent websites that scam users into purchasing tickets to the much-anticipated FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Just recently I found another threat that used the FIFA World Cup as a social engineering hook, this time it involves a banking Trojan. Banking Trojans are popular in the Latin…

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Tags: banking TrojanBANLOADCPL malwaredata breachFIFAspam mailWorld Cup

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