For that past several days, Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing hexadecimal obfuscated URLs. Hexadecimal character codes are simply the hexadecimal number to letter repres
Category: Email Encryption
Fraudsters Continue to Show Interest in Football
April 26, 2013
Symantec
Contributor: Avhdoot Patil
Phishers have recently gained a lot of interest in football. Various phishing attacks using football were observed in 2012. Phishers have already shown th
Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages
April 26, 2013
Symantec
Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing .pw top-level domain (TLD) URLs. While it was originally a country code top-level domain for Palau, it is now available to the ge
Phishers Campaign for More Votes Against Syrian Regime
April 24, 2013
Symantec
Contributor: Avdhoot Patil
Phishers are not letting go of the chaos in Syria. They are using a common phishing template and modifying the messages. In March, phishers mimicked the same websit