Remember this post about emails which looks like Facebook and Twitter phishing at first signt ? http://msorin.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/facebook-and-twitter-phishing-on-first-sight/ Now Amazon.com got hit quite massively: Read more here in the Avira Techblog
The source of the articles is in the Avira Techblog: Twitter Phishing (on first sight) Facebook Phishing (on first sight) Twitter Over the weekend our spam traps received a massive wave of emails looking like the one below: The emails seem to stem from “Twitter Support” (support@twitter.com) and are addressed each to exactly one unique […]
Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings
http://techblog.avira.com/risk-level/en/ Avira Risk Level definitions There is an average level computed for the last 30 days for both malware and phishing. The alert level is computed like this: 1 Normal activity – less than -50 percent 2 Increased activity – between -50 and -25 percent 3 Suspicious activity – between -25 and 25 percent 4 […]
Also known as MIME Sniffing, this is a feature or bug in IE which is the only browser able to dynamically determine the content type of the document it loads. So, in this case, it detects a plain text document with HTML content instead of a an JPG header. And the content of the “JPG” […]
I did it again : I’ve written a new article for VB 🙂 Note that you need an account in order to read it. Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites
I wrote a new article for Virus Bulletin Magazine called Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites (requires registration)
http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/phishing/419-or-phish.xml
http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/phishing/stock-spam-pdf.xml
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