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, […]
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
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