Free turkey for all!

Americans having been planning their Thanksgiving meal for a while, and the spammers haven’t been idle.

They’ve not only been offering recipes:

but the ingredients for them too! Order a mass mailing, and get coupons for a free turkey! (What’s kind of intriguing is that the mass mailing on offer is traditional, paper-based advertising, rather than the electronic kind.)

All the emails we’ve been filtering show the spammers are jumping on the bandwagon of tradition to flog their usual goods and services. But they’ve broken with tradition in one way – rather than waiting till Black Friday to launch their sales, they’ve started early.

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Our experts discovered a new CoolClient backdoor variant with a kernel-mode rootkit driver that hides malicious processes, files, and network connections from security tools and threat analysts.

Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still Toolkit aimed at stealing Telegram data and eavesdropping on victims.

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