Spam & Phishing

Spam using WhatsApp voice mail

      I wrote before about various tricks that cybercriminals use to attract people to do something (btw, this is called “social engineering”). This time, they make use of the well-known WhatsApp (written like I did and not like in the screenshot below) to redirect users to an online pharmacy website.     The […]

Spam & Phishing

Phishing attempts making use of the eBay data breach

I wrote about the eBay data breach where cybercriminals got access to some eBay employees’ credentials and accessed the internal network. Names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and encrpyted passwords were obtained. eBay started a campaign to reset the password of all their users. More information is available in their FAQ. Unfortunately, the breach […]

distributed systems quoted Security Spam & Phishing

Some thoughts about the spam attack sent through InternetOfThings (Proofpoint)

http://www.proofpoint.com/about-us/press-releases/01162014.php More than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM emails Launched from “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Note: An article about this has been published by Richard Adhikari in TechNewsWorld.   A general comment on the entire story. Security researchers usually use spamtraps (an email address that receive nothing else than pure spam) to collect these emails and […]

General Spam & Phishing

When the spammer offers you to sell his ads

I received the spam below from a company called Media Discovery (a New Web Ltd company). They want me to sell them advertising space on this domain.   I was wondering whether you’d be interested in selling advertising space on sorin-mustaca.com? Wow… but advertising for what?   The advertisement would be unobtrusive and we can pay you an […]

News Spam & Phishing

Virus Bulletin Article on Anti-Botnet-Initiative

Virus Bulletin Article on Anti-Botnet-Initiative The Virus Bulletin Magazine has published an article on the anti-botnet initiative in which Avira takes part. The goal is to clean infected computers and reduce the impact of cyber criminal activities. Read the article here (.pdf, 111kb) or head over to the Virus Bulletin web site where the magazine […]

Spam & Phishing

Nigerian scams are modernizing

I sometimes laugh of these scammers, but sometimes I am quit amazed of their capability to adapt to the spam filters. My Google account caught this spam: In text, this is : Good Day, I am Mr. Ming Yang,Director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,Hong Kong.I am here-by seeking your […]

News Spam & Phishing

Sometimes it is good to know the Romanian language

Just stumbled upon this blog post from Symantec http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/spammers-introduce-new-email-internet-headers where an absolutely normal spam process is described. Unfortunately for the author who clearly doesn’t understand Romania, he copied/pasted all headers, even those which he doesn’t understand. So, he copied all kind of bad words, things which you usually wouldn’t publish in a serious blog. I […]