When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]
I wrote in the post “What do you think: aggressive sales campaign or fraud?” about the attempt to impress and scare me of losing my domain. Now, I bought a new domain which was free in Internet. I watched this domain for two years to become available again, after i lost it because of a […]
Several types of emails are being sent with a ZIP attachment containing a single file with this mask: <number>.doc.js. Here is as text. Apparently, Google loves text because it can index it better, so I am doing here some SEO 🙂 Notice to Appear, You have not paid for driving on a toll […]
This scam is sent by CHTAH.COM platform which is known to send millions of spam emails. You can see its added “value” by inserting the three colored rectangles on top of the mail. “iPhone 7 Testers Wanted!” is trying to lure the readers to a website that looks very much like the times.com website. […]
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 […]
If you receive on LinkedIn an email like the one below, with the subject “get back to me ASAP”, wouldn’t you wonder who is needing you so badly? Do you want to sale 50% ownership or 100% ownership of your business. I just want something casual I could invest on with Eight Hundred Thousand […]
You thought that there are only Advanced Persistent Threats and Spear Phishing? Here is a new one : Targeted Ads. This time it might not be so dramatic, but imagine that you sent this to a lot of people. How many do you think that will register? So, what’s the catch? If there are […]
I wrote in the post Do you really know who’s visiting your website? about how often hackers probe my websites. IT Security News has of today this: 5,914 blocked malicious login attempts / was 2092 on May 8th 2,182 spam comments blocked by Akismet. / was 2115 on May 8th The login attempts more than doubled in just 5 […]
I have several websites, but the most visited by far is IT Security News (http://www.ITSecurityNews.info). I receive a lot of spam in it which is caught by the plugin Akismet of WordPress. But, from time to time, I receive an email directed to info@ or other addresses. The latest one looks like the screenshot below and I […]
This post appeared originally in: IT Security blog: http://itsecurity.co.uk/2015/03/spam-malicious-taste/ I haven’t seen in a while a well done complex spam with malicious payload. This one appears to be addressed to first name of the email recipient. As you can see in the subject, it is addressed to “SORIN” since my email address is sorin.mustaca@… The […]
