Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28737: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 12, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53431 First Published: 2017 April 12 17:10 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 RuleID28737 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28725: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 11, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53409 First Published: 2017 April 11 20:00 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 RuleID28725 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28726: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 11, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53408 First Published: 2017 April 11 20:00 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 RuleID28726 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28709: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 11, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53401 First Published: 2017 April 11 16:11 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 RuleID28709 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Fake News at Work in Spam Kingpin’s Arrest?

Over the past several days, many Western news media outlets have predictably devoured thinly-sourced reporting from a Russian publication that the arrest last week of a Russian spam kingpin in Spain was related to hacking attacks linked to last year’s U.S. election. While there is scant evidence...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28705: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 11, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53396 First Published: 2017 April 11 15:07 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 RuleID28705 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28703: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 11, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53394 First Published: 2017 April 11 14:56 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 RuleID28703 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Microsoft Patches Word Zero-Day Spreading Dridex Malware

Microsoft on Tuesday released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was discovered late last week and used to spread the Dridex banking Trojan. Attacks were spreading via a massive spam campaign where emails contain Microsoft Word documents with malicious attachments that exploited a...

Spammer's Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet

The alleged Russian botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet was arrested while on vacation in Spain, putting an end to a seven-year cybercrime operation that foisted hundreds of millions of spam messages on consumers, as well as a dangerous array of banking malware and ransomware. Pyotr Levashov, als...

Unpatched Microsoft Word Flaw is Being Used to Spread Dridex Banking Trojan

If you are a regular reader of The Hacker News, you might be aware of an ongoing cyber attack — detected in the wild by McAfee and FireEye — that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Offic...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28659: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53389 First Published: 2017 April 10 19:15 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 RuleID28659 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28658: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53388 First Published: 2017 April 10 19:15 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 RuleID28658 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28631: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53373 First Published: 2017 April 10 15:42 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 RuleID28631 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28691: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53381 First Published: 2017 April 10 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 RuleID28691 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28689: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53380 First Published: 2017 April 10 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 RuleID28689 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28688: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53379 First Published: 2017 April 10 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 RuleID28688 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28685: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53377 First Published: 2017 April 10 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 RuleID28685 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28668: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53368 First Published: 2017 April 7 12:52 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 RuleID28668 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28653: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53367 First Published: 2017 April 7 12:52 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 RuleID28653 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28657: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53366 First Published: 2017 April 7 12:52 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 RuleID28657 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...