[FireEye]Holiday Season 2015 Email Campaign

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Holiday Season 2015 Email Campaign

The holiday season is a time when many people go on vacation or at
  least get much-needed downtime from work, but that is not always the
  case with attackers. To better understand the threats we face during
  “the most wonderful time of the year,” FireEye Labs has been
  collecting data on the most prominent malware families delivered via
  email campaigns throughout the 2015 holiday season.

 

Email phishing remains one of the primary infection vectors used by
  threat actors to deliver malware. Detecting these email campaigns
  continues to be challenging, as delivery methods and the form of the
  malware downloaders continue to evolve.

 
 

 

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Join us for a free webinar!

FireEye malware researchers
    Mary Grace Timcang and Robert Venal share key insights on email
    attack campaigns from various threat groups over the 2015 holiday
    season.
 Tues., Feb. 16 (11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT)
 

 
 

In this report you will learn about how Dridex conducted a
  large-scale attack using new delivery methods in a suspected attempt
  to obtain new victims following an October takedown, how FareIt
  continues to be creative in its social engineering techniques to
  entice targets, and how TeslaCrypt is using scripts that could easily
  be modified, which makes each sample highly dynamic in its content and
  techniques. We also detail campaigns involving Nivdort, Nymaim, and UrSnif.

 

We expect these threats will persist and continue to adapt through
  new social engineering techniques, delivery methods, and the
  complexity of attacks.   

 

As such, it is important for organizations to remain vigilant with
  user education, proactive detection technologies and security policies.

 

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  about email campaigns that occurred during the 2015 holiday season.

 

For more information on these threats, we will have a live webinar
  with FireEye’s Mary Grace Timcang and Robert Vernal.     target="_blank"
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