General Spam & Phishing

What do you think: aggressive sales campaign or fraud?

What do you think after you quickly read this letter? What makes this email special: addressed to me, using the data from the domain registration (mandatory things, which my registrar added) uses my domain name A lot of red text written in capitals special keywords like “notice”, “important”, “notification”, “expiration”, “act”, “immediately” has a clear deadline […]

Spam & Phishing

PayPal Phishing for German customers with innovative social engineering technique

  Nothing special in this phishing email in German from the “PayPal Team” asking to click in order to unlock your PayPal account. PayPal – Informationen erforderlich! Hallo Ihr PayPal-Konto ist vorübergehend gesperrt. Sie können keine weiteren Zahlungen bei PayPal tätigen. Um die Sperrung Ihres Kontos aufzuheben und die Entfernung all Ihrer aktiven Fälle sowie […]

News

Security release 4.2.4 for WordPress is available – update now

This release addresses six issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site. Read more here: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/ WordPress 4.2.4 also fixes four bugs. For more information, see the release notes or consult the list of changes.   If you have your site already at WordPress 4.x and it is properly configured, […]

Spam & Phishing

Interesting blog trackback spam

A trackback is one of four types of linkback methods for website authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to their articles. Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe,WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in […]