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Low Volume, High Payoff Attacks Target Financial Services Industries in Asia

Sep

2013

Executive Summary Malicious email found targeting financial institutions in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Nepal. Very low volume and advanced penetration techniques applied aiming for stealthy payoff. Websense® ThreatScope™ sandboxing reveals the attack most likely seeks monetary gain through the use of a banking Trojan variant. Details A few days ago, researchers from Websense Security Labs™ were […]

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The Tibetan Alliance of Chicago hit by cyber waterholing attack

Aug

2013

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud has detected that the website of the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago has been compromised to serve malicious code. In the last two days, the BBC website reported news about a waterholing attack against the Central Tibetan Administration website. Over the last two years, attacks like these have targetted pro-Tibet websites and other human rights […]

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Custom Attachment Names and Passwords for Trojans

Jul

2013

Websense® Security Labs™ researchers, using our Websense ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud, recently noticed an increased use of custom-generated attachment file names, and some use of password-protected ZIP files. Emails with banking/financial themes are being sent with executables packed in ZIP files, with file names matching the intended recipient. When the attachment runs on a victim's computer, a Trojan from the Zbot P2P family […]

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