General

Spam using Google’s Spreadsheets

It was Google Docs, Google Notes and now Google Spreadsheets: Interesting to notice is also the fact that the email was sent from a Google Mail Account *ONLY* to other Google Mail accounts. And, the famous Google Antispam didn’t mark it as SPAM:

Spam & Phishing

Stupid spammers

Don’t you just hate them ?! I do… They are just wasting my CPU power and bandwidth to detect such stupid evasion techniques. I mean… look at the picture below: Why the hack would I send to myself a picture with all kind of meds and then, write at the end some text from a […]

General

Nigerian scam with MS Word Document attached

There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]

Spam & Phishing

Spammed by… GFI Software?

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 ? […]

Antivirus Spam & Phishing

New type of Stock Spam : PDF Stock Spam

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 […]