Symantec has recently observed a trend of phishing sites attacking brands that feature online classifieds. The legitimate classifieds brands help customers seek and exchange information on various categories such as employment, real estate, automotive, matrimonial, and so on.

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Fraudsters Running a Classified Ad Campaign

In the past couple of months, Symantec has observed a mass phishing attack on two major brands that provide retail electronic payment services for banks across the globe.

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Mass Phishing of Retail Electronic Payment Brands

Symantec previously reported a phishing attack on the Indian Income Tax Department . Phishing emails boasting of tax refunds were sent to users in an attempt to entice citizens to enter their credentials on a bogus website.

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Attacks on Indian Income Tax Department Continue

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

Recently, Symantec received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the signature was just a ruse used by the malware author to give an air of legitimacy to the files.

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Viruses and Digital Signatures

Symantec has been observing several spam and phishing attacks regarding the recent Valentine’s Day.

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Phishing Scam Linked to Valentine’s Day Movie

Recently, Symantec observed some high-profile coverage of a threat being reported as a new type of computer virus known as “Kneber.” In reality Kneber is simply a pseudonym for the Zeus Trojan/botnet. The name Kneber refers to a particular group, or herd, of zombie computers (a.k.a.

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“Kneber” = Zeus

Symantec has recently observed phishing scams targeting Apple iPhones in order to gain serial numbers, IMEI, model, and capacity, etc. What is an IMEI

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Apple iPhone Warranty Scam

This is a follow-up to a previous article on Tidserv and MS10-015 .

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Tidserv and BSoD