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Malware Uses New DLL Loading Technique – MS11-071

It has been a year since we have witnessed a DLL hijacking technique which loads a malicious DLL that affects hundreds of programs. The method involves dropping a collection of normal files together with the malicious DLL from within a directory. We recently analyzed the following archive sample. Only the

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Twice as bad: speeding ticket with attached malware

Nobody likes receiving a traffic ticket, but one with attached malware is a lot worse. We could get into a philosophical argument about which is truly more terrible – a traffic ticket that adds points to your license and raises your insurance rates, or malware that infiltrates your PC, insinuating

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Updated: NACHA Payment cancelled – scam continues

In February 2011, NACHA alerted the public about fraudulent emails being distributed that appeared to be sent from NACHA and signed by a non-existent NACHA employee. We reported this campaign back in June 2011 but it has come back in the past 2 weeks with a new twist to trick

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Spammer marketing from “Spam Center Flow’

Even spammers need to do marketing – the email below (translated from Russian) advertises a spam (sorry, “direct emailer”) group called “Flow”. See previous blog post with a similar example that included costs.  Spam Center “Flow” welcomes you!  That was over the summer, it’s time to leave and the active,

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Shopping in my sleep? No, just malware.

I received my confirmation email from Athleta so quickly, I didn’t even remember placing the order. But I was intrigued by the possibility of my having ordered a long list of great-sounding swimwear and summer clothes from Athleta without even realizing it. Am I that addicted to e-commerce that I

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The Commtouch compromised account survey

(For more info about this topic see our previous post.) We’d like to hear your story so we can get a better picture of how compromised accounts happen, what the bad guys do with the accounts, and how people react. Of course we’ll publish the results as soon as we

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