Inside a Porn-Pimping Spam Botnet

For several months I've been poking at a decent-sized spam botnet that appears to be used mainly for promoting adult dating sites. Having hit a wall in my research, I decided it might be good to publish what I've unearthed so far to see if this dovetails with any other research out there. In late...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29500: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 15, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54210 First Published: 2017 June 15 13:44 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29500 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29499: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 15, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54209 First Published: 2017 June 15 13:44 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29499 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

CVE-2015-9096

A SMTP command injection flaw was found in the way Ruby's Net::SMTP module handled CRLF sequences in certain SMTP commands. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to inject SMTP commands in a SMTP session in order to facilitate phishing attacks or spam campaigns...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29489: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54202 First Published: 2017 June 14 20:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29489 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29487: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54201 First Published: 2017 June 14 20:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29487 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29485: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54200 First Published: 2017 June 14 20:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29485 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29480: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54199 First Published: 2017 June 14 15:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29480 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29473: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54197 First Published: 2017 June 14 15:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29473 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29471: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54184 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29471 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29470: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54183 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29470 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29469: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54182 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29469 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29467: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54181 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29467 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29466: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54180 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29466 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29465: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54179 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29465 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29463: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 13, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54178 First Published: 2017 June 13 13:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29463 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Microsoft Office Malicious Macros

Microsoft Office files might contain a malicious downloader. A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including those downloaders, and use social engineering in order to convince users to manually enable them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29455: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 12, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54173 First Published: 2017 June 12 12:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29455 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29453: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 12, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54172 First Published: 2017 June 12 12:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29453 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29435: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 12, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54170 First Published: 2017 June 12 12:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29435 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...