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Phishing Emails Generating Botnet Scaling

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2008-04-18 14:57:30 by HASH0x8aef3f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...emails targeting the usual diverse set of brands, fake yahoo greeting cards , and most recently delivering "executable news items", through Backdoor.Agent.AJU malware infected hosts Within the first five minutes, thirty three (33) phishing emails attempted to be delivered out of a sample infected host, all of them targeting NatWest or The...
 
Tags: bank, bank digital, ns1, bank bankline, ns2, bank internet, malware, malware variants signal, botnet
 
 
 
 
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Phishing emails and training users

2008-07-07 09:24:45 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...emails. The problem with this approach is that the criminals sending such emails quickly adapt to circumvent the advice given to customers, as can be seen in this quiz Even worse is that the emails sent by banks often resemble phishing attempts, and sometimes directly violate the advice given to customers. With this do as I say, not as I do...
 
Tags: emails, customers, customers regularly, train customers, emails quickly adapt, alternative approach, email, bank fraud, fraud
 
 
 
 
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250k of Harvested Hotmail Emails Go For?

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2008-09-25 12:13:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...emails by releasing an easily embeddable module, was an anticipated move. What's to come? Spam and malware campaigns across social networks "as usual" will propagate faster thanks to the ongoing harvesting of usernames within social networks, that would later on get imported in Web 2.0 "marketing" tools targeting the high-trafficked sites and...
 
Tags: emails, email, email harvester, spam campaigns, spam, lone spammers, spammers, 250k emails, automatic email
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...emails claiming the recipients have won large amounts of money in a Microsoft sweepstakes or lottery -- often 500,000 British pounds. This is an easy question to answer: they're fake Recently, someone forwarded me the email. Let's examine some of its characteristics The sending address is microsoft.co.uk-00@adelphia.net. The address was a...
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo! Groups Are Used By Phishers To Send Personalized Scam Emails

2008-06-25 22:51:46 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A spam campaign that sends personalized phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups has recently been reported by TrendLabs researchers, Jake Soriano and Grace Ermitanyo (who provided detailed analysis about this attack). Phishers appear to have sent phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups via either the standard posting methods through Yahoo! Groups...
 
Tags: yahoo, emails, spam campaign, jake soriano, grace ermitanyo, trendlabs researchers, phishers, standard, recently
 
 
 
 
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BitTorrent Users Are The Targets In New Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Spam

2008-09-09 10:50:32 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Spammers are now targeting BitTorrent users and have sent out millions of emails that claim to come from MediaDefender. The fake emails warn the receiver that he or she has been logged using BitTorrent and points them to an attachment supposedly containing evidence which is in fact a virus. The e-mail looks like it comes from
 
Tags: emails, bittorrent, bittorrent users, fake emails warn, attachment supposedly, receiver, claim, virus, spammers
 
 
 
 
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CNN, MSNBC Spammers Downgrading Their EMails

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2008-08-17 16:00:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...emails (with none of the allusions to being from major news networks) that simply say "BREAKING news" in the title field If you visit the link in the email, you'll see this Click to Enlarge I don't believe I've seen the length, rating and viewcount under the video before so that's likely a new tactic they've employed. Looks like...
 
Tags: news stories, news, major news networks, plain emails, title field, msnbc spam, cnn spam, peoples attention, spellchecker
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...emails. This will protect your company against possible employee lawsuits regarding invasion of privacy. Have your users sign the email policy to confirm that they have read and understood the regulations. For more information on what to include in your Email policy, got to the blog article Ten points to include in your email-policy 2: Train...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...emails contain malware , and a rather ironical situation where malware infected hosts inside Pfizer are spamming viagra emails The recently uncovered breach at the U.S Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a perfect example of some of the key concepts I covered in the article, namely, harvesting of the emails courtesy of the spammers, segmenting...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy