Comments on: Spamvertised LinkedIn notifications serving client-side exploits and malware

By: Spamvertised ‘US Airways reservation confirmation’ themed emails serve exploits and malware « Webroot Threat Blog

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:00:37 +0000

[...] Verizon-themed ‘Your Bill Is Now Available’ emails lead to ZeuS crimeware” ; “Spamvertised LinkedIn notifications serving client-side exploits and malware“ campaigns, leading us to the conclusion that it’s the same cybercriminal/gang of [...]

By: Ongoing spam campaign impersonates LinkedIn, serves exploits and malware « Webroot Threat Blog

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:44:11 +0000

[...] the LinkedIn exploits and malware serving campaigns which I profiled in March, and [...]

By: Spamvertised ‘Your Amazon.com order confirmation’ emails serving client-side exploits and malware « Webroot Threat Blog

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:09:36 +0000

[...] Spamvertised LinkedIn notifications serving client-side exploits and malware [...]

By: Risk Detective

Risk Detective — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:27:27 +0000

I agree with Nic, I have not seen a lot of spam coming through linkIn, but the stuff you’ve identified here is pretty clever and could be pretty damaging. Thanks for the info.

By: Ongoing ‘LinkedIn Invitation’ themed campaign serving client-side exploits and malware « Webroot Threat Blog

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:46:00 +0000

[...] the ‘LinkedIn Invitations’ themed malware campaign which I profiled in March, [...]

By: A peek inside a managed spam service « Webroot Threat Blog

A peek inside a managed spam service « Webroot Threat Blog — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:20:09 +0000

[...] customer could easily request the design of spam templates impersonating Google, Facebook, USPS, LinkedIn, U.S Airways, or Verizon [...]

By: Spamvertised ‘US Airways’ themed emails serving client-side exploits and malware « Webroot Threat Blog

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:08:22 +0000

[...] Based on the campaign’s structure, it’s launched by the same gang of cybercriminals that recently launched the following campaigns “Spamvertised Verizon-themed ‘Your Bill Is Now Available’ emails lead to ZeuS crimeware” ; “Spamvertised LinkedIn notifications serving client-side exploits and malware“. [...]

By: Spamvertised Verizon-themed ‘Your Bill Is Now Available’ emails lead to ZeuS crimeware « Webroot Threat Blog

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:19:28 +0000

[...] Now where have we seen this IP before? In last week’s “Spamvertised LinkedIn notifications serving client-side exploits and malware” malware campaign where 176.28.18.135 was serving client-side exploits through the [...]

By: Nic Coventry

Nic Coventry — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:26:36 +0000

I’ve been using LinkedIn for quite some time, and I’ve only recieved a couple messages that seemed to me to be spam, and honestly, they weren’t that bad. This is really bad what you’re talking about here. I really glad I know about this now so that I can make sure to keep an eye out for these exploits. Thanks so much for this info.

By: Lisa Bongiovanni

Lisa Bongiovanni — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:19:43 +0000

Hi Eddie – Thanks for checking out our blog! That would be just fine. Feel free to use any of the content you find on our blog with a link back to the post you found it on.