Valentine’s Day

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2018
Necurs botnet is behind seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam

Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails. Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in the activity of the infamous botnet. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April 2017. The Necurs botnet was used […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2014
1million Android devices infected by Xshqi Worm on Chinese Valentine’s day

One million Android devices in China were infected with an Xshqi SMS worm on August 2, the day the country celebrated Valentine’s Day. Experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that a  malware, dubbed Trojan.AndroidOS.Xshqi.a, infected neatly 500,000 Android devices in just six hours last week in China, but Chinese media provided a more pessimistic estimate declaring that the […]