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Threat Insights and Trends from the 2016 Threat Brief

Intro from the 2016 Threat Brief: “2015 was yet another record year for cybercrime, during which more malware, malicious IPs, websites, and mobile apps were discovered than in any previous year. It...

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Cybercriminals impersonate HSBC through fake ‘payment e-Advice’ themed...

HSBC customers, watch what you execute on your PCs. A circulating malicious spam campaign attempts to socially engineer you into thinking that you’ve received a legitimate ‘payment e-Advice’. In...

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Fake ‘MMS Gallery’ notifications impersonate T-Mobile U.K, expose users to...

Over the last two months, we’ve been closely monitoring — and proactively protecting from — the malicious campaigns launched by cybercriminals who are no strangers to the concept of social engineering...

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‘Adobe License Service Center Order NR’ and ‘Notice to appear in court’...

Happy New Year, everyone! Despite the lack of blog updates over the Holidays, we continued to intercept malicious campaigns over the same period of time, proving that the bad guys never take holidays....

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Spamvertised ‘Image has been sent’ Evernote themed campaign serves...

Cybercriminals continue to populate their botnets, with new infected hosts, through the persistent and systematic spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails which impersonate popular and well...

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Spamvertised ‘You received a new message from Skype voicemail service’ themed...

We’ve just intercepted a currently circulating malicious spam campaign that’s attempting to trick potential botnet victims into thinking that they’ve received a legitimate Voice Message Notification...

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Spamvertised ‘Error in calculation of your tax’ themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue populating their botnets through the persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of legitimately looking malicious emails, impersonating popular brands, in an attempt to trick...

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Spamvertised ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails lead to malware

PayPal users, watch what you click on! We’ve recently intercepted a currently circulating malicious spamvertised campaign which is impersonating PayPal in an attempt to trick socially engineered end...

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Malicious JJ Black Consultancy ‘Computer Support Services’ themed emails lead...

Relying on the systematic and persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails, as well as the impersonation of popular brands for the purpose of socially engineering gullible users into...

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Spamvertised ‘June invoice” themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue spamvertising tens of thousands of malicious emails on their way to socially engineer gullible end users, ultimately increasing their botnet’s infected population through the...

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