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Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers

Posted by deepcore under Security (No Respond)

Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and adapting to what the security community and researchers are doing, and it’s not unusual for the bad guys to adopt techniques used by their adversaries. The latest example of this is a malware gang that has deployed what amounts to a honeypot designed to monitor the activity of […]

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Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs

Posted by deepcore under Security (4 Responds)

Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans flexible cognitive abilities to slip past the notice of […]

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