Save the Date: #ISTR Twitter Chat on Symantec Internet Security Threat Report
Join Symantec Security Response experts Kevin Haley and Paul Wood on Twitter (using the #ISTR hashtag) on Tuesday, April 30, at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET to chat about the key trends highlighted in...
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Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages
Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing .pw top-level domain (TLD) URLs. While it was originally a country code top-level domain for Palau, it is now available to the general...
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Fraudsters Continue to Show Interest in Football
Contributor: Avhdoot PatilPhishers have recently gained a lot of interest in football. Various phishing attacks using football were observed in 2012. Phishers have already shown their interest in the...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Password?
Nearly every week now we can read about a data breach case somewhere, where millions of user accounts and potential other sensitive data has been compromised. Most people are not even shocked by such...
View ArticleSocial Media and Hacktivism: Two Ideas Made for Each Other?
In today’s connected world, many of us are members of at least one, if not more, social networking services. The influence and reach of social media enterprises, such as Facebook (more than 600M active...
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The Hexadecimal URL Obfuscation Resurgence
For that past several days, Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing hexadecimal obfuscated URLs. Hexadecimal character codes are simply the hexadecimal number to letter...
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.pw URLs in Spam Keep Showing Up
Last week, Symantec posted a blog on an increase in spam messages with .pw URLs. Since then, spam messages with .pw URLs have begun showing up even more. Figure 1. .pw TLD spam message increase...
View ArticleGoogle Glass and Tomorrow's Security Concerns
If you haven’t heard, Google Glass, the latest gadget from the Silicon Valley giant, has set the media and tech world abuzz, with both admiration and controversy surrounding the device. Google Glass...
View ArticleNew Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Used in Watering Hole Attack
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2847140 in response to reports regarding public exploitation of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8. Other versions such as Internet Explorer 6,...
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Spammers Continue to Exploit Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is celebrated in many countries on May 12 and it’s a day for children, regardless of age, to express their love to their mother by giving her a gift. Spam messages related to Mother’s Day...
View ArticleOpUSA Begins Today, Is Your Organization Ready?
Following on from recent concerted campaigns by Anonymous against Israel on April 7 and Facebook on April 5, the latest target for the online hacktivist collective is the USA and American online...
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Escrow Scams Searching New Avenues
Contributor: Binny KuriakosePeople dream big when buying expensive items like a car or a property. When those dreams are seen with very affordable price tags it certainly attracts everybody’s interest....
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Fake Promotional Offers Targeting UEFA Champions League 2013
The 58th season of the UEFA Champions League is coming to an end with the final being played on May 25 at Wembley Stadium in London. Nowadays, cybercriminals are gaining a lot of interest in football,...
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When Web Servers Serve Evil
In the last few months, we have witnessed a rise in the number of cases of modified Web servers that inject malicious redirections into every website that it hosts. One example was the malicious Apache...
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A Phone Call, a Phish, and a Remote Access Trojan
In April 2013, Symantec was alerted to a series of sophisticated social-engineering attacks targeting a limited set of organizations in Europe. The most distinguishing feature of these attacks is that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patch Tuesday – May 2013
Hello, welcome to this month's blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing 10 bulletins covering a total of 33 vulnerabilities. Eleven of this month's issues are rated...
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Increase in Pump and Dump Stock Spam
In the last few weeks we have observed a drastic increase in “penny stock” spam emails. In 2011 Symantec published a blog entitled Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams, which also...
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Phishers Offer Rita Ora’s Video
Contributor: Avdhoot PatilCelebrity scandals are always popular and phishers are keen on incorporating them into their phishing sites. Recently, we observed a phishing site featuring British singer and...
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Japanese One-Click Fraud on Google Play Leads to Data Stealing App
Since the beginning of the year, a Japanese one-click fraud campaign has continued to wreak havoc on Google Play. The scammers have published approximately 700 apps in total since the end of January....
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Spam Campaigns Take to Tumblr
As the urban legend goes, the bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” he is attributed as saying. While Sutton has long since distanced himself...
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