Cybercriminals spamvertise bogus eFax Corporate delivery messages, serve multiple malware variants
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails trying to trick recipients into executing malicious attachments pitched as recently arrived fax messages. Upon running the malicious executables, users are exposed to a variety of dropped malware variants in a clear attempt by the cybercriminals to add additional layers of monetization to the campaign.
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Bogus Better Business Bureau themed notifications serve client-side exploits and malware
Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating the Better Business Bureau (BBB), in an attempt to trick users into clicking on a link to a non-existent report. Upon clicking on the link, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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‘PayPal Account Modified’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
A cybercriminal/group of cybercriminals that’s been responsible for a series of malware attacks that I’ve been recently profiling, continues to systematically rotate the impersonated brands and the actual malicious payload dropped by the market leading Black Hole Exploit Kit. The prospective target of their latest campaign? PayPal users.
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Cybercriminals abuse major U.S SMS gateways, release DIY Mail-to-SMS flooders
Largely driven by a widespread adoption of growth and efficiency oriented strategies applied by cybercriminals within the entire spectrum of the cybercrime ecosystem, we’ve witnessed the emergence and development of the mobile device market segment over the past few years. Motivated by the fact that more people own a mobile device than a PC, cybercriminals quickly adapted and started innovating in an attempt to capitalize on this ever-growing market segment within their portfolio of fraudulent operations.
In this post I’ll profile a DIY Mail-to-SMS flooder that’s abusing a popular feature offered by international and U.S based mobile carriers – the ability to SMS any number through an email message. The DIY SMS flooder exclusively targets U.S users.
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‘American Express Alert: Your Transaction is Aborted’ themed emails serve client-side exploits and malware
American Express cardholders, beware!
Over the past week, cybercriminals mass mailed millions of emails impersonating American Express, in an attempt to trick its customers into clicking on the malicious links found in the emails. Upon clicking on any of the links, users are redirected to a malicious URL serving cllient-side exploits courtesy of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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‘Payroll Account Holded by Intuit’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
Intuit users, beware!
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating Intuit’s Direct Deposit Service, in an attempt to trick its users into clicking on the malicious links found in the legitimate-looking emails. Upon clicking on any of them, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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‘Your Discover Card Services Blockaded’ themed emails serve client-side exploits and malware
Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating Discover, in an attempt to trick cardholders into clicking on the client-side exploits serving URLs found in the malicious emails. Upon clicking on the links, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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‘Fwd: Scan from a Xerox W. Pro’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
On a periodic basis, malicious cybercriminals spamvertise millions of emails attempting to trick end users into thinking that they’ve received a scanned document. Upon clicking on the links found in these emails, or viewing the malicious .html attachment, users are automatically exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
In this post, I will profile two currently circulating malicious campaigns. The first is mimicking a Xerox Pro printer, and the second is claiming to be a legitimate Wire Transfer. Both of these campaigns point to the same client-side exploits serving URL, indicating that they’ve been launched by the same cybercriminal/gang of cybercriminals.
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USPS ‘Postal Notification’ themed emails lead to malware
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating The United States Postal Service (USPS), in an attempt to trick its customers into downloading and executing the malicious .zip archive linked in the bogus emails.
Upon execution, the malware opens a backdoor on the affected host, allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign to gain complete control over the host.
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‘ADP Immediate Notification’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit
Newsflash, the cybercriminals behind the recently profiled malicious campaign impersonating Bank of America, launched yet another massive spam campaign, this time targeting ADP customers. Upon clicking on the link found in the malicious email, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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BofA ‘Online Banking Passcode Reset’ themed emails serve client-side exploits and malware
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails, in an attempt to trick Bank of America customers into clicking on the exploit and malware-serving link found in the spamvertised email. Relying on bogus “Online Banking Passcode Changed” notifications and professionally looking email templates, the campaign is the latest indication of the systematic rotation of impersonated brands in an attempt to cover as many market segments as possible.
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Nuclear Exploit Pack goes 2.0
In times when the market leading Black Hole Exploit Kit continues to gain market share, competing products are prone to emerge. What is the competition up to? Has it managed to differentiate itself from the market leading product or is it basically a “me too” exploit kit lacking any significant features worth emphasizing on?
In this post, I’ll profile the recently advertised Nuclear Exploit Pack v.2.0, elaborate on its features, and discuss whether or not it has the potential to outpace the market leader (Black Hole Exploit Kit) in terms of market share.
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