In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize.

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: March 2010

Following our blog, 0-Day attack on IE6: JS.Sykipot doesn’t spare retired software , covering the recent IE 0-day , we thought it might be interesting to look at an attack in the wild using this vulnerabili

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Backdoor.Sykipot At Work

Internet Explorer 6 may have taken its path to retirement but it still remains a good target for exploits, as we can see from JS.Sykipot .

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Zero-Day attack on IE6 – JS.Sykipot Doesn’t Spare Retired Software

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday - March 2010

We recently received a file (from CERT) for analysis. We found that the file was a Trojan that opens a back door on a compromised computer and listens for commands on port 7777. This by itself is not very unusual, but what surprised us was that this file was being distributed by Energizer Inc as part of a USB charger-monitoring software package.

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Back Door Found in Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger Software

“Big Brother Brazil” is a Brazilian reality TV program adapted from the popular Big Brother television series. The show is about a group of people living together in a purpose-built Big Brother house, isolated from the outside world, while being monitored by cameras 24×7.

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Big Brother in Social Networking Scam

According to Symantec’s latest State of Spam and Phishing report , scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded since the inception of the report. For comparison, these types of spam represented only 10 percent of total spam a year ago.

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Beware of Targeted Scams and Phishing Attacks!

A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010.

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Massive Earthquake in Chile Leads to a Surge of Rogue Antivirus

In February, Russia celebrates one of the most important “man” holidays of the whole year: “The Day of the Defender of the Motherland.” On this day, all Russian men and boys are congratulated.

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From Russia With Love: День защитника Отечества Spam