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Cybercrime Trends 2013 – Year in Review

It’s that time of the year! The moment when we reflect back on the cybercrime tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that shaped 2013, in order to constructively speculate on what’s to come for 2014...

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‘Adobe License Service Center Order NR’ and ‘Notice to appear in court’...

Happy New Year, everyone! Despite the lack of blog updates over the Holidays, we continued to intercept malicious campaigns over the same period of time, proving that the bad guys never take holidays....

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Spamvertised ‘Image has been sent’ Evernote themed campaign serves...

Cybercriminals continue to populate their botnets, with new infected hosts, through the persistent and systematic spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails which impersonate popular and well...

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Spamvertised ‘You received a new message from Skype voicemail service’ themed...

We’ve just intercepted a currently circulating malicious spam campaign that’s attempting to trick potential botnet victims into thinking that they’ve received a legitimate Voice Message Notification...

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Multiple spamvertised bogus online casino themed campaigns intercepted in the...

Regular readers of Webroot’s Threat Blog are familiar with our series of posts detailing the proliferation of social engineering driven, privacy-violating campaigns serving W32/Casino variants. Relying...

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Spamvertised ‘Error in calculation of your tax’ themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue populating their botnets through the persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of legitimately looking malicious emails, impersonating popular brands, in an attempt to trick...

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Spamvertised ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails lead to malware

PayPal users, watch what you click on! We’ve recently intercepted a currently circulating malicious spamvertised campaign which is impersonating PayPal in an attempt to trick socially engineered end...

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Malicious JJ Black Consultancy ‘Computer Support Services’ themed emails lead...

Relying on the systematic and persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails, as well as the impersonation of popular brands for the purpose of socially engineering gullible users into...

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Spamvertised ‘June invoice” themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue spamvertising tens of thousands of malicious emails on their way to socially engineer gullible end users, ultimately increasing their botnet’s infected population through the...

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Spamvertised ‘Customer Daily Statement’ themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue to efficiently populate their botnets, through the systematic and persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails, for the purpose of socially engineering gullible...

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Cybercrime Trends 2013 – Year in Review

It’s that time of the year! The moment when we reflect back on the cybercrime tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that shaped 2013, in order to constructively speculate on what’s to come for 2014...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

‘Adobe License Service Center Order NR’ and ‘Notice to appear in court’...

Happy New Year, everyone! Despite the lack of blog updates over the Holidays, we continued to intercept malicious campaigns over the same period of time, proving that the bad guys never take holidays....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘Image has been sent’ Evernote themed campaign serves...

Cybercriminals continue to populate their botnets, with new infected hosts, through the persistent and systematic spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails which impersonate popular and well...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘You received a new message from Skype voicemail service’ themed...

We’ve just intercepted a currently circulating malicious spam campaign that’s attempting to trick potential botnet victims into thinking that they’ve received a legitimate Voice Message Notification...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Multiple spamvertised bogus online casino themed campaigns intercepted in the...

Regular readers of Webroot’s Threat Blog are familiar with our series of posts detailing the proliferation of social engineering driven, privacy-violating campaigns serving W32/Casino variants. Relying...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘Error in calculation of your tax’ themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue populating their botnets through the persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of legitimately looking malicious emails, impersonating popular brands, in an attempt to trick...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails lead to malware

PayPal users, watch what you click on! We’ve recently intercepted a currently circulating malicious spamvertised campaign which is impersonating PayPal in an attempt to trick socially engineered end...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Malicious JJ Black Consultancy ‘Computer Support Services’ themed emails lead...

Relying on the systematic and persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails, as well as the impersonation of popular brands for the purpose of socially engineering gullible users into...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘June invoice” themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue spamvertising tens of thousands of malicious emails on their way to socially engineer gullible end users, ultimately increasing their botnet’s infected population through the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spamvertised ‘Customer Daily Statement’ themed emails lead to malware

Cybercriminals continue to efficiently populate their botnets, through the systematic and persistent spamvertising of tens of thousands of fake emails, for the purpose of socially engineering gullible...

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