by Blog Staff | Dec 4, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
At the end of October, a cybercriminal or group of cybercriminals launched three massive spam campaigns in an attempt to trick users into clicking on a deceptive link and downloading a malicious attachment. Upon execution, the malware phones back to the command and control servers operated by the party that launched it, allowing complete access to the infected PC.
This time they didn’t try impersonating USPS, UPS or DHL, but FedEx.
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by Blog Staff | Dec 3, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Security researchers and security vendors are constantly profiling and blocking the malicious operations launched by organized crime groups on the Internet.
In an attempt to increase the life cycle of their malicious campaigns, cybercriminals rely on a set of domains hosted on bulletproof servers. In addition to this tactic, they also rely on fast-fluxing, a technique where a domain’s IP automatically rotates on a specific time interval, with IPs from the botnet’s infected population — state of the art bulletproof hosting in a combination with cybercrime-friendly domain registrar.
In order to make it even harder for the security community to disrupt their campaigns, cybercriminals also implement the random domain name generation tactic. This makes it more difficult for researchers to assess and shut down their operations, as of all the randomly generated domains initiating “phone home” command and control server communications, only a few will actually respond and will be registered and operated by the cybercriminals behind the campaign.
In this post, I’ll profile a recently launched DIY malicious domain name registering/managing service which makes it easier for cybercriminals to manage their domains portfolios. The service allows them to register randomly generated domains in mass, instantly change IPs and Name Servers, and cross-reference with anti-spam checklists for verification of clean/flagged IPs.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 30, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Cybercriminals have recently launched yet another massive spam campaign attempting to trick users into clicking on malicious links or executing malicious attachments found in the spamvertised emails.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 30, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Sticking to their well proven practice of systematically rotating impersonated brands, the cybercriminals behind a huge majority of the malicious campaigns that we’ve been profiling recently are once again impersonating Intuit in an attempt to trick its customers into clicking on links exposing them to the client-side exploits served by the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 29, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Cybercriminals are mass mailing malicious emails about a meeting you wouldn’t want to attend – unless you want to compromise the integrity of your computer.
Once executed, the malicious attachment opens a backdoor on the affected host, allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign to gain complete access to the affected host. Naturally, we’ve been monitoring their operations for quite some time, and are easily able to identify multiple connections between their previously launched campaigns.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 29, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Cybercriminals are currently impersonating T-Mobile U.K, in an attempt to trick its customers into downloading a bogus billing information report. Upon execution, the malware opens a backdoor on the affected host, allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign complete access to the infected PC.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 28, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Over the past couple of days, cybercriminals have launched yet another massive spam campaign, once again targeting U.K users. This time, they are impersonating Vodafone U.K, in an attempt to trick its customers into executing a bogus MMS attachment found in the malicious emails. Upon execution, the sample opens a backdoor on the affected hosts, allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign complete access to the affected PC.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 28, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
From UPS, USPS to DHL, bogus and malicious parcel tracking confirmations are a common social engineering technique often used by cybercriminals to trick users into clicking on malicious links or executing malicious attachments found in the spamvertised emails.
Continuing what appears to be a working social engineering tactic, cybercriminals are currently mass mailing bogus DHL ‘Express Delivery Notifications’ in an attempt to trick users into executing the malicious attachment. Once executed, it opens a backdoor on the affected host allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign complete access to the infected PC.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 27, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
U.K users, beware!
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing yet another malicious spam campaign, enticing users into viewing a bogus list of parking transactions. Upon executing the malicious attachment, the malware opens a backdoor on the affected host, allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign complete access to the host.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 27, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Facebook users, watch out!
A recently launched malicious spam campaign is impersonating Facebook, Inc. in an attempt to trick its one billion users into thinking that they’ve received a notification alerting them on activities they may have missed on Facebook. Upon clicking on any of the links found in the email, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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