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Beware of Fake FedEx Tracking Report Notification

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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Last week some of our customers informed us that they are receiving spam emails claiming to be from FedEx carrying the subject line: “FedEx Shipment Notification”. The email looks like this: The spam email contains a Zip file. Upon extraction, it presents an executable file named “FedEx_Tracking_Report_Notification_ID.exe”. This is a malicious file belonging to the […]

Fake emails – American Airlines

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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I have come across some significant activity related to spam email messages that are pretending to be from American Airlines. This email misguides the user that his purchased ticket scan copy is attached with this email and asks him to print it for use. The email has “Ticket.zip” as an attachment contains a malicious ‘Ticket.exe’ […]

Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Emails

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Phishers are using spoofed email addresses from the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) to trick recipients into downloading a malicious executable file. The emails are sent from the spoofed email address soc@us-cert.gov with the subject line: “Phishing incident report call number: PH0000003863970”. The fake warning claims US-CERT has opened the incident number PH0000007135030 and […]

Microsoft announces workaround for the Duqu exploit

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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Microsoft has posted a security advisory 2639658 to address the recently disclosed Windows kernel vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402) exploited by the Duqu malware. Microsoft has determined the flaw is in the processing of embedded True Type Fonts (TTFs). According to Microsoft: “The attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with […]

Surfing the Internet the secure way with browser sandbox

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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PC’s today are mostly victims of infections caused by visiting infected websites that drop malware codes. Even though we have website reputation checks implemented by all anti-malware software, there is always a slight chance that the user may visit a newly infected website that has not yet been classified as ‘infected’ in the reputation database. […]

“Battery Doctor” Android Scareware

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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A new “scareware” targeting mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system claims that it has the ability to recharge the battery, but in reality it is designed to steal information. When the program first executes, the overview window shown below appears. As you can see, it shows information about the battery and running applications and […]