As promised, this would be a pretty short historical OSINT post — catching up is in progress — detailing the structure of several campaigns that took place throughout July-August, 2010, and (as always) try to emphasize on the connection with historical malware campaigns profiled on my personal blog.

Campaigns of notice include: spamvertised “Celebrities death-themed emails”, “Fedex shipment

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