Woke up this morning to see a dramatic rise in TCP port 5168 scans. Various people are abuzz trying to figure out what malware is behind this. At present it seems to be a botnet causing all of the havoc. You can see that it’s mainly Chinese hosts doing the work around this.
Right now there’s [...]
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Got a round of these in my inbox this morning. These are EXEs being spammed out in e-mail messages to get you to install malware. The names of Hollywood stars used in the emails include Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, and Natalie Portman.
Here’s a sample email:
Subject: Pictures
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 5 lines Text [...]
