Phishing Spam & Phishing

Aggressive phishing against Strato.de customers

Strato.de (now belonging to 1&1) is one of the biggests hosters in Germany. Since a few weeks we see a lot of emails containing various texts that try to convince the user to login to his strato.de account and perform some actions. Strato published on their blog also a post about these fake emails: https://strato.de/blog/achtung-aktuell-wieder-phishing-mails-im-namen-von-strato-im-umlauf/ […]

Spam & Phishing

Nigerian Scam ? No, COVID-19 scam, from China

I sometimes can’t stop to ask myself if the scammers are actually human beings with feelings of loss and tragedy and if they have the same concerns as the normal citizens. I guess they are not, because otherwise you can’t explain this:   Hello friend, I intend to give out some portion of my wealth […]

General Spam & Phishing

Bitcoin scam related to the Corona virus

As I mentioned before, there is a lot going on in the cyberspace related to the Corona virus. Unfortunately, many of the things circulating are scams or information that direct to malware. This is an email circulating currently in massive waves in various languages (here in German):   Hallo Sorin Mustaca Falls Sie es noch […]

Security Spam & Phishing

Targeted Phishing against Strato.de

We have ta lot of phishing attempts in German against Strato.de:   Subject: Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Sehr geehrter Kunde, Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Diese Art von Fehlern zeigt normalerweise an, dass die Kreditkarte abgelaufen ist oder Ihre Rechnungsadresse ist ungültig. Klicken Sie auf den folgenden Link, um Ihre Informationen zu aktualisieren: https://www.strato.de/apps/CustomerService#/skl […]

Antivirus Security Spam & Phishing

Targeted Malware on the rise

  Ever wondered what a “spear phishing” is ? Or a “targeted malware” ? See below: It is an email targeted to a member of an organization, which is made to look as legitimate as possible. The difference between normal phishing and malware emails and a targeted one is that the contents of the emails […]