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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Account Operations Report contains a trojan

admin 31/10/2008 31/10/2008Viruses Malware, trojan, trojan.downloader, virus 0

Emails with the subject “Account Operations Report” contains the Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.anaq according to the F-Secure anti virus. The message: Good morning Icommittal We got the request for the detailed report on your account operations made in the period…

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Eliminate your debt spam

admin 17/10/2008 17/10/2008Spam debt 0

With the financial crisis there seems to be an uprise of financial/debt spam emails worldwide. Some of these spam messages also make use of the domain spaces.live.com to host their spam message trying to defeat…

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Statement January - October virus

admin 17/10/2008 17/10/2008Viruses Malware, trojan, virus 2

MX Lab intercepted a new virus variant that is only detected by 5 of the 36 anti virus engines on Virus Total. The virus is known as PAK_Generic.001 by Trend Micro, Backdoor.Win32.Haxdoor by Ikarus or as Trojan:Win32/Emold.gen!C by…

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MX Lab is "best buy" according to Data News

admin 16/10/2008 16/10/2008MX Lab News Belgacom e-Services, hosted email security, hosted security, Kaspersky, MessageLabs, SPAMfighter, Symantec, tests, Trend Micro 0

Data News, a IT/ICT magazine from Roularta Media Group, has published in magazine nr. 31, 3 October 2008, a test regarding hosted mail security. The tested email security providers are Belgacom e-Services Email Security, Kaspersky…

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Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows

admin 10/10/2008 10/10/2008Viruses Malware, security update, trojan, virus 4

MX lab intercepted emails with the subject “Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows” with a rather long email with the instructions to run the attached file named, in this case, KB934178.exe, which is a keylogger program that…

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Nice Citibank phishing attempt example

admin 07/10/2008 07/10/2008Phishing citibank, fraud 1

We intercepted a nice Citibank phishing attempt. The email contains the notification that 1 message is waiting for you in the mail section so you will need to login. Dear Customer, You have one new…

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Canadian Pharmacy spam looks like a mailing

admin 01/10/2008 01/10/2008Spam canadian pharmacy, drugs, pharmacy, pills, viagra 1

Most of the time, spam for viagra and other pills from Canadian Pharmacy doesn’t look so good like this campaign. Their latest spam campaign is rather nice looking and has some tricks to lure the…

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