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Labs Note

April 6, 2020Luke Leal

Phishing with a COVID-19 Lure

It’s not uncommon to see criminals use disasters or current events to enhance their social engineering tactics, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic is no different. During a recent investigation, we received an email originating from 69.112.92.34 (x-originating-ip: [69.112.92.34]) with a [redacted]@[redacted].k12.ct.us email address and the…

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Labs Note

March 6, 2020Krasimir Konov

Phishing and Malware via SMS Text Message

We’ve recently noticed an increase in reports of phishing and malware being distributed via SMS text messages. During one investigation, we identified fake messages sent from a random number pretending…

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Phishing

July 3, 2018Fioravante Souza

Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns

We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam…

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ryptomining Through Disguised URLs

May 22, 2018Luke Leal

An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners

As we have previously discussed on this blog, surreptitious cryptomining continues to be a problem as new methods emerge to both evade and hasten the ease of mining at the…

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Baidu to Google Redirects

April 18, 2018Denis Sinegubko

From Baidu to Google’s Open Redirects

Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages. It didn’t last long. Soon…

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Unwanted Ads via Baidu Links

April 10, 2018Denis Sinegubko

Unwanted Ads via Baidu Links

The malware attack that began as an installation of malicious Injectbody/Injectscr WordPress plugins back in February has evolved since then. Some of the changes were documented as updates at the bottom…

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June 13, 2017Cesar Anjos

When Your Plugins Turn Against You

Every day we face countless cases of sites getting compromised and infected by an attacker. From there, the sites can be used for various operations like spam campaigns, malware spreading…

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April 20, 2017Denis Sinegubko

Website Malware: Unwanted Exit to YourBrexit

Some website hacks aim to make some political statements. Defacements are well known for this. Some infections redirect visitors to scam sites that push (usually counterfeit) goods or (often illegal)…

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December 12, 2016Denis Sinegubko

How Scammers Abuse Baidu Search Results

If you use Skype, recently you may have received Baidu link spam from some of your contacts. The links look like this: www.baidu[.]com/link?url=_QIcrpeV-oOPb6HGTgigvW00e0fiBQyFjSui12FrARO#emubahyt= When you click these links you end up on…

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September 29, 2015Denis Sinegubko

Analyzing Black Hat URL Shorteners

Hackers are known to use URL shortening services to obfuscate their real landing pages. It’s very effective in clickbait scams on social networks. Some hackers think that using URL shorteners…

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May 12, 2015Val Vesa

How Social Media Blacklisting Happens

In today’s world, we are all browsing websites online and sharing content on a multitude of social media platforms every day. Worldwide social media users exceeded 2 billion back in…

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