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Modified Zyklon and plugins from India
Threat Research
Streams of malicious emails Talos inspects every day usually consist of active spamming campaigns for various ransomware families, phishing campaigns and the common malware family suspects such as banking Trojans
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Far East Targeted by Drive by Download Attack
Security
This blog was co-authored by Kevin Brooks, Alex Chiu, Joel Esler, Martin Lee, Emmanuel Tacheau, Andrew Tsonchev, and Craig Williams. On the 21st of July, 2014, Cisco TRAC became aware
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Threat Spotlight: A String of ‘Paerls’, Part One
Security
This post was co-authored by Jaeson Schultz, Joel Esler, and Richard Harman. Update 7-8-14: Part 2 can be found here This is part one in a two-part series due to the sheer amount
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Zeus Botnet Impersonating Trusteer Rapport Update
SecurityStarting Friday, July 19, 2013 at 14:45 GMT, Cisco TRAC spotted a new spam campaign likely propagated by the Zeus botnet. The initial burst of spam was very short in
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Department of Labor Watering Hole Attack Confirmed to be 0-Day with Possible Advanced Reconnaissance Capabilities
SecurityUpdate 2 5/9/2013: Microsoft has released a “Microsoft fix it” as a temporary mitigation for this issue on systems which require IE8. At this time, multiple sites have been observed
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Coordinated Attacks Against the U.S. Government and Banking Infrastructure
Security
Prologue On April 10, 2013, a collective of politically motivated hacktivists announced a round of planned attacks called #OPUSA. These attacks, slated to begin May 7, 2013, are to be launched against U.S.-based
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Possible Exploit Vector for DarkLeech Compromises
SecurityOften it is quite surprising how long old, well-known vulnerabilities continue to be exploited. Recently, a friend sent me an example of a malicious script used in an attempted attack against their
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Yesterday Boston, Today Waco, Tomorrow Malware
SecurityAt 10:30 UTC one of the botnet spam campaigns we discussed yesterday took a shift to focus on the recent explosion in Texas. The miscreants responded to the tragic events
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Massive Spam and Malware Campaign Following the Boston Tragedy
SecuritySummary On April 16th at 11:00pm GMT, the first of two botnets began a massive spam campaign to take advantage of the recent Boston tragedy. The spam messages claim to
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Who Keeps Your IPS Up To Date?
Security
The realm of Network security encompasses many perspectives and interests as is evident from the wealth of articles prevalent across the media and availability of various proactive protection measures. One
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