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 […]
IRS(Internal Revenue Service) is the official authority in the USA to collect taxes. “Why would someone phish them?”, you may ask. That’s why:(see red area below). In the form they ask you to have access to your bank account. They have all needed proves to substitute you: address, tax payer ID and many […]
I received last night an email pretending to come from Apple’s support. But, it is badly made if you see it in an email client. Dear Customer AppleID14028364ca Due to recent updates we are asking many of our customers to confirm their information this is nothing to worry about. We are making sure we have […]
A classical phishing email… Nothing special (same bad English, as always). Dear Valued Customer, Unauthorized access has been detected in your account. Unfortunately, due to this event, our security system has limited the access to your account. Account Limitations prevent you from completing certain actions with your account, such as withdrawing, sending, or receiving money. […]
I wrote about the eBay data breach where cybercriminals got access to some eBay employees’ credentials and accessed the internal network. Names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and encrpyted passwords were obtained. eBay started a campaign to reset the password of all their users. More information is available in their FAQ. Unfortunately, the breach […]
http://www.proofpoint.com/about-us/press-releases/01162014.php More than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM emails Launched from “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Note: An article about this has been published by Richard Adhikari in TechNewsWorld. A general comment on the entire story. Security researchers usually use spamtraps (an email address that receive nothing else than pure spam) to collect these emails and […]
With the holidays and presents season approaching, most of us are thinking what presents to order for Christmas. Many people prefer to order them online than to spend hours chasing presents in a mall. I know I am one of those… This fact is also known by cyber criminals who are doing anything to get […]
I received from the CompTIA Smartbrief newsletter a notification about an interesting article: PayPal security guru: No one is safe from threats This is the article PayPal security chief on Epsilon breach and more written by Elinor Mills of Cnet. I agree with most of the comments of Mr. Barret until this one: Q: Is […]
“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 […]
Softpedia took again one of my posts in the Avira Techblog and wrote an article based on it: “In the recent past we saw emails looking like phishing mails, which were spam though actually. The spammers tried to make them look as much as possible as official mails from the entity they were faking: Amazon, […]
