Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Changelog Email Messages on September 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 27244 First Published: 2012 October 19 18:19 GMT Last Updated: 2014 September 12 13:05 GMT Version: 5 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a changelog for the recipient. The text in the email message attempt...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Invoice Statement Attachment Email Messages on April 15, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 27077 First Published: 2012 October 1 21:39 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 16 11:23 GMT Version: 78 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice statement for the recipient. The text in the email message...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake DHL Express Tracking Notification Email Messages on February 3, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 26262 First Published: 2012 June 27 20:46 GMT Last Updated: 2014 February 4 13:56 GMT Version: 26 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a DHL Express tracking notification for the recipient. The text in the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Portuguese Pornographic Video Email Messages on April 22, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 26252 First Published: 2012 June 26 21:46 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 23 14:15 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment to a pornographic video file for the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Annual Conference Notification Email Messages on May 23, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25995 First Published: 2012 May 24 15:58 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a science conference notification for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipie...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Picture Link Email Messages on September 16, 2013

Low Alert ID: 25964 First Published: 2012 May 18 17:00 GMT Last Updated: 2013 September 17 14:05 GMT Version: 78 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages. The text in the email message instructs the recipient to follow a link or open an attachment...

Trojan Mimics Chrome Installer to Steal Banking Information

Malware impersonating a Google Chrome Installer is actually stealing data while stripping software used to protect online banking transactions. The Trojan at present appears to target users in Brazil and Peru. Trend Micro researchers report in a blog post that they have discovered a malicious fil...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Order Request Details Email Messages on May 16, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25938 First Published: 2012 May 16 14:32 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain order request details for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Terra Greeting Card Notification Email Messages on May 11, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25908 First Published: 2012 May 14 14:50 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Spanish-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a Terra greeting card for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Proof Details Email Messages on May 11, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25907 First Published: 2012 May 14 14:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain proof of payment for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Statement Notification Email Messages on May 18, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25900 First Published: 2012 May 10 16:25 GMT Last Updated: 2012 May 18 17:02 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain the recipient's account statement details for review. The te...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Contract Confirmation Email Messages on May 21, 2012

Medium Alert ID: 25854 First Published: 2012 May 8 21:07 GMT Last Updated: 2012 May 21 14:44 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain contract confirmation details for the recipient. The text ...

Flashback/SabPub

2012 The Mac malware scene shifted into high gear in 2012 with the emergence of the Flashback trojan and the revelation that its authors had control of a massive botnet containing well over a half-million machines. Flashback and SabPub, which exploited the same Java vulnerabilities, are the first...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake UPS Payment Document Attachment Email Messages on January 21, 2014

Low Alert ID: 25171 First Published: 2012 February 13 15:22 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 22 15:06 GMT Version: 53 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment document from the United Parcel Service UPS for the recipient...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Misleading Tourism Email Messages on June 13, 2014

Low Alert ID: 23905 First Published: 2011 August 15 16:16 GMT Last Updated: 2014 June 16 13:32 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain "World Maps of Girls" for the recipient. The text in the email message attemp...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Electronic Payment Cancellation Email Messages on April 8, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 23517 First Published: 2011 June 29 14:00 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 10 13:53 GMT Version: 80 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an electronic payment cancellation for the recipient. The text in the e-ma...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Delivery Express Parcel Notification Email Messages on�August 25, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 22891 First Published: 2011 April 8 14:39 GMT Last Updated: 2015 August 27 13:02 GMT Version: 13 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that inform the recipient about a parcel delivery from Delivery Express. The text in the email...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Western Union Money Transfer Transaction Email Messages on October 20, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 21930 First Published: 2010 December 1 13:41 GMT Last Updated: 2014 October 22 11:48 GMT Version: 20 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment with information about a Western Union money transfer...

Trend Micro Control Manager Chunked Overflow (CVE-2005-1929)

The Trend Micro Control Manager product is a centralized outbreak management console. It is meant to consolidate the coordination of outbreak security actions and the management of Trend Micro products and services. The product is a central command center for management of infections or...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...