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Bank hosting Banker and Whale Phishing

11.19.2007 - 10:47 AM
Last week, we discovered two new attacks. Both attacks were designed to steal identities and, potentially, other information from end-users. There was also some cruel irony about each. Banker hosted on Bank site The first example started off with an email lure that was being spammed on Wed, Nov. 14th. The email was written in Spanish and appeared to target Mexican citizens. It enticed users to connect to a Web site with the use of an animated cartoon. This Web site was a compromised site which is the home of a financial instit...
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Update on yl18 dot net mass infection

11.12.2007 - 3:27 PM
Websense® Security Labs™'s ThreatSeeker™ technology has identified more than 350 sites to date containing malicious code designed to infect the site's visitors through the use of an external JavaScript file. Th...
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