I received a post from my friend John Graham-Cumming (www.jgc.org) where he announced that he retires from the antispam industry. I even asked him if this is a joke. No, it is not. John, I am sorry to see you leave, I wish you good luck in your future activity, whatever that might be. Now, […]
I received this email from a guy from GFI who contacted me on the email address published on the website. Interesting mode to make publicity. Practically, they want me to spread the word about their company. Cheap marketing, nothing to say. 🙂 Now, how can we differentiate between a spam and such a message ? […]
Remember the stock spams send in PDF format ? You thought they are new ? Think again ! Now it is time for Excel format ! The mails come in a ~24Kb XLS file called “detailed invoice.xls”, “stock information.xls”, “investor_news2323.xls” and probably many others. See the picture below for a screen shot. What is interesting […]
John Graham Cumming is maintaining his Spammer’s Compendium and he is giving names to spam techniques. I reported some time ago one technique used in PayPal phishing emails and he created a method: Cross your fingers and click (UH!Mustaca!HTML) What: Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a […]
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Last evening I analyzed a new type of spam, together with Oliver Auerbach. It has been published immediately on the avira.com website, thanks to Oliver. Source: http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/new_type_of_stock_spam.html Content: Tettnang, Wed, 20 June 2007 – Avira warns about a new type of spam which is currently sent to users within Germany. The spam claims to be […]
The organizers of the symposium filmed and published all the talks on Google’s YouTube. Who wants to see what happened there, can access the presentations from here: http://www.spamsymposium.eu/archivewebcast.htm
So, a new attack against Raiffeisen clients in Romania. I made the analysis. Here is the link: http://www.avira.ro/ro/stiri_securitate/un_nou_atac_phishing_asupra_clientilor_raiffeisen.html
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