CVs and sensitive info soliciting email campaign impersonates NATO


By Dancho Danchev

Want to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? You may want to skip the CVs/personally identifiable information soliciting campaign that I’m about to profile in this post, as you’d be involuntarily sharing your information with what looks like an intelligence gathering operation.

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Skype propagating Trojan targets Syrian activists


By Dancho Danchev

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is reporting on a recently intercepted malicious documents distributed over Skype, apparently targeting Syrian activists.

Upon viewing the document, it drops additional files on the infected hosts, and opens a backdoor allowing the cyber spies behind the campaign access to the infected PC. 

Webroot has obtained a copy of the malware and analyzed its malicious payload.

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