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java Adwind delivered via fake MoneyGram notice ( again)

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We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. Many Antiviruses on Virus Total  normally detect these heuristically. You can now submit suspicious sites, emails and files via our Submissions system Make Note: Java Adwind  / Java Jacksbot are both very dangerous remote access backdoor Trojans, that have cross OS capabilities and can potentially run … Continue reading →

Fake MoneyGram Important! Transaction Query malspam delivers java trojan

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We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. Many Antiviruses on Virus Total detect these heuristically. The link in the email goes to a zip file which doesn’t extract. However if you rename the zip to .rar it does. It looks like the malware author has made a bit of a mess … Continue reading →

Fw: Moneygram Maintenance Schedule – From 20th June 2017 malspam delivers java adwind

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We continue to be plagued  by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. Many Antiviruses on Virus Total detect these heuristically. Today’s version is more devious than previous versions and comes via a spam protection service  which is used by many ISPs and hosting companies as a spam filtering service. They obviously are not doing a very good job … Continue reading →

fake M.G Statement May 2017 malspam delivers java adwind

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The gang delivering these Java Adwind versions are getting a bit lazy again.  The email, although shorter and less involved still spoofs the same company, pretends to come from MCB bank in Pakistan again and  delivers exactly the some version of Java Adwind as yesterday We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. … Continue reading →

New Guidelines From MoneyGram malspam delivers a brand new java Adwind version

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We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. Many Antiviruses on Virus Total detect these heuristically, however  I haven’t seen a malspammed Adwind version as badly detected as this one for  a very long time. Make Note: Java Adwind  / Java Jacksbot are both very dangerous remote access backdoor Trojans, that have cross OS … Continue reading →

URGENT MONEY GRAM CONFIRMATION delivers java adwind

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We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. Many Antiviruses on Virus Total detect these heuristically. Make Note: Java Adwind  / Java Jacksbot are both very dangerous remote access backdoor Trojans, that have cross OS capabilities and can potentially run and infect any computer or operating system including windows, Apple Mac, Android and Linux. … Continue reading →

Spoofed MoneyGram Urgent Request of Payment Confirmation delivers Java Jacksbot

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We know the holidays are well and truly over and Malyears day has arrived when we receive these perennial fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones.  From what I can see until recently many antivirus companies detected these as Java Adwind. Now they are calling them Java Jacksbot. From what I can see there is almost no difference … Continue reading →

java jacksbot delivered by spoofed MoneyGram International malspam

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We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind or Java Jacksbot attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these  HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today’s has a  slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. This appears to be a newish Java jacksbot  version in this email, see below for details. From what I can see until recently many antivirus companies detected these as Java Adwind. Now they are calling them Java Jacksbot. From what I can see there is almost no … Continue reading →