“Romanian tax return phishing” published in the Avira Techblog From: Ministerul Finantelor Publice Date: 25.11.2010 07:54:34 Subject: Ministertul Finantelor Publice – Taxe si Impozite Dupa ultimele calcule ale activitatii dumneavoastra anuale am stabilit ca va sunt eligibile pentru primirea unei rambursari a impozitului in conformitate cu sectiunea 501 (c). Valoarea impozitului returnat este de 473,27 […]
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 […]
Some subdomains of the Daily Telegraph were hacked by a group of Romanian hackers called R.N.S Read more here: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/subdomains-defaced-on-telegraph-website.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/15/daily-telegraph-hacking
“70 Romanian Phishers & Fraudsters Arrested On March 4th, FBI Director Robert Mueller was given a speech on Cybercrime to the RSA conference where he mentioned that: And we have worked with the Romanian National Police to arrest more than 100 Romanian nationals in the past 18 months. Four years ago, several American companies threatened […]