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Wekby APT 18 Exploiting Hacking Team Flash Zero Day
The Wekby APT group, implicated in a number of targeted attacks against health care organizations such as Community Health Systems and major pharmaceutical companies, is reportedly making use of the Adobe Flash Player zero-day found in the Hacking Team data dump. According to Virginia-based...
Cybercrime Group Preys on Wall Street Insider Information
A criminal hacking group with an innate understanding of how Wall Street moves and what influences stock prices has found a soft spot in more than 100 publicly traded companies and is stealing, among other data, mergers and acquisitions intelligence. The group is homed in on healthcare and...
Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Pharmaceutical Advertisement Email Messages on March 23, 2014
Medium Alert ID: 33475 First Published: 2014 March 24 15:31 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a pharmaceutical advertisement notice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...
Spammers Using Fake YouTube Notifications to Peddle Drugs
Spammers are attempting to deceive unsuspecting users into clicking on fake YouTube links that lead to a counterfeit drug website, according to a report yesterday from security firm Webroot. Dancho Danchev writes that pharmaceutical scammers are circulating emails that mimic legitimate Youtube...
Fake Apple Store Emails Redirect to New WikiPharmacy
Fake Apple Store order notification emails floating around the Web right now are redirecting to a new site pushing the same old familiar list of discount read: fake pharmaceuticals. Similar scams have been going on for months now. They typically redirect to a relatively familiar pharmacy page...
The Pharmaceutical Spam Machine
In this Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab senior spam analyst Maria Namestnikova looks closely at the pharmaceutical spam operations and discusses how spammers are using affiliate programs and rebuilt botnets to recover from last year’s crackdown...
Image of the Day: SpamIt, Glavmed Models
Today’s image of the day comes from Brian Krebs’s blog, KrebsonSecurity. The image illustrates how Glavmed and other alleged players in the global spam game operate, and is part of a larger exposition of the Spamit operation that was reportedly shut down sometime last year as detailed by Krebs on...
Google and Godaddy Head Coalition Against Rogue Pharmacies
Herbal Viagra peddlers beware: Google and GoDaddy are coordinating the establishment of a non-profit organization dedicated to curbing the spread of illegal online pharmaceutical companies. The two firms plan to share information and work together to educate consumers about the dangers of buying...
Report Alleges Bredolab-Spamit Connections
Law enforcement crackdowns in recent weeks have targeted two major contributors to worldwide spam: Spamit.com and the Bredolab botnet. Now a new report suggests that the two cases may be related. A report on Krebsonsecurity.com claims that the recent arrest of a 27 year-old man, identified as Geo...
Windows Live Spaces A Fake Pharma Target
Cybercrime affiliates of unlicensed pharmaceutical websites have begun moving on from attacks purely designed to poison Google search engine results, and are now targeting Microsoft’s web properties. Read the full article. The Register...
The return of image-based spam
After a two year absence, IBM X-Force is reporting iss.net a significant spike in image-based spam. “Since March 20th, we have been witnessing a rebirth of image-based spam. At first, we saw a small trial of image-based spam, reaching 5-10%. Then, in late April, we saw another blast this time a...
CVE-2006-5374
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Pharmaceutical Applications 4.5.1 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors, aka Vuln PHAR01...
CVE-2006-5374
Technical details about CVE-2006-5374 are not provided in the supplied documents; no affected versions, exploit specifics, or remediation are disclosed here. Monitor for updates.
