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At the onset of June, news about the MERS disease began spreading around the globe. And just like in the past, cybercriminals and spammers are quick to leverage such notable news to proliferate their
We recently received phishing mails that take advantage of the 2015 tax season in the United States as a social engineering lure to target unwitting users. The keywords used in the phishing email
Rumors are circulating that the public version of iOS 8.4 is about to be released to the general public in the next few weeks, though Apple has kept mum about the exact date. Last month, Apple made a
Superbowl scams and schemes are upon us once again as Superbowl XLIX nears. Our research shows a scam mail aimed at followers of this particular event. The spammed email pretends to sell tickets to
Valentine's Day came early for spammers this 2015. We've recently encountered a variety of spammed emails with the keywords 'Valentine's Day' found in different parts of the emails, including its
As tax season continues, so do the rise of the socially-engineered spam campaigns that take advantage of it. The latest we've found and received samples of purports itself to be a refund notification
The disastrous 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal last April 25 made global headlines. People all over the world started to send donations and volunteered to help the victims. And as the world prayed
ROMBERTIK malware is known for its information-stealing routines via hooking itself on certain web browsers. It typically arrives as an attachment to email messages. In the spam samples we spotted,
We spotted spam emails laden with DRIDEX malware that pretends to come from a British gas company. Unsuspecting users who opened the email will see an attached Word document file that has malicious
A new wave of DRIDEX spam run is seen in the wild. Much like its predecessor, these recent spammed messages pretend as invoice to lure the users in opening the attachment. Once the attachment is
The use of bogus invoices is one of the common social engineering ploys in spam runs to date. In our monitoring we spotted another spammed messages that pose as an invoice statement for a due
We are currently seeing huge volumes of malicious JavaScript attachments being spammed at users through email. This particular spam campaign uses the typical social engineering lures like invoice
It's tax season once more and like the inevitable turning of the tide, there are several spam campaigns using this particular social engineering hook. In this spam campaign, the sender is posing as
JavaScript downloaders, like JS_NEMUCOD variants, are making noise with its widespread distribution of malware such as ransomware and DRIDEX. These downloaders are usually found in spam as
An email that poses as a notification of a possible account compromise carries an attachment that is detected as DRIDEX malware. To convince users to open the attachment, it instructs recipients to
We recently came across a spam which poses as an invoice for a certain 'Penalty Charge Notice'. Should unsuspecting users open the .DOC file attached in the said spam email, the embedded macro will
As the world mourns the death of rock star icon David Bowie, cybercriminals are quick to leverage this tragic news for their social engineering ploys. Unlike spam runs where one can immediately see
We spotted a spam run that could potentially leave user systems infected with a variant of FAREIT malware (detected as W2KM_FAREIT.BM). FAREIT is a known for stealing credentials stored in web
We spotted spam mail with the subject of New Order , claiming that there's an attached invoice for a new order. The spam mail contains a .DOC file. When a user opens the said document, a macro
Spammed messages that go as zamowienie , which translates to Order in English, are seen circulating with a .ZIP attachment. The attachment, when opened, installs a data-stealing malware detected by