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Similar to EMOTET’s arrival, Trojan spyware Azurolt has been spotted coming in the form of a spoofed bank notification. The spam campaign is making the rounds in Germany and UK.
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The spam emails contain a recent payment notification from different spoofed bank email addresses. The mail's body has a link that downloads a .
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With the .IQY malware being a hot topic in recent months, it comes as no surprise that it has adapted to become another variant that uses the embedding capability of PDFs.
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Cryptocurrency is the hot new topic nowadays, so it's no surprise that cybercriminals will start to use it as a way to get users to click on their malicious spam mail. For the past few days, we have seen an increase in the number of cryptocurrency-related spam emails.
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Different variants of fake Paypal notice emails were found in recent circulation. The contents of the email included the recipient’s name, PayPal ID, payment amounts, as well as the malicious link.
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Spam campaigns, carrying links or malicious .doc files, exploiting the Microsoft Office vulnerability known as CVE-2017-11882 is spreading in Australia and Japan.
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More news on the malicious spam front - we recently received two waves of what appears to be malformed malspam. The first one has 'Supplement payment [Random Number]' for its subject heading, while the other one is passing itself off as a 'Document invoice_[Random number]_sign_and_return.
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Ransomware-related spam emails usually use archived attachments to deliver the malware. However, this time, we've found the ransomware Locky to arrive via spam emails that contain HTML attachments.
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The Locky ransomware spam campaign appears to be in full force as we find not just one but two new samples of Locky-ridden spammed mails in this report. The first one arrives with the subject 'Emailed Invoice - [Random Number]' while the second one comes with the subject 'New Doc [yyyy-mm-dd] - Page [Random Number]' - subjects brief and terse enough that anyone unware might mistake them as casual business communication and thus legitimate.
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Trojan Powmet are arriving as attachments to invoice and efax-related emails. In spoofed invoice mails, .
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