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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
...recipient Sender Address: "NatWest Internet Banking '2008" to Recipient: Subject: Natwest Bank Bankline: Confirm Your Login Email Content: //ver2.natwest-commercial3.com/customerupdate?tag=3D19ecygtKZDzrozrznhOzn These directives are to be sent and followed by all members of the NatWest Private and Corporate Natwest does apologize for any...
 
Tags: bank, bank digital, ns1, bank bankline, ns2, bank internet, malware, malware variants signal, botnet
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...recipient. There is no legitimate reason to add text outside HTML tags, so the mere presence of illegal HTML can be treated as suspicious 9. Message body contains small font size : In order to circumvent Bayesian filters and filters that block messages with only images, spammers enter normal text at the bottom of the message in order to...
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...recipient has viewed the mail. This indicates which email addresses are live and can be sent even more spam 3. Message contains only HTML body : HTML messages usually include a plain text version of the email so that recipients with email clients that cannot read HTML can still view the message in plain text. However, many spammers tend to...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly
 
 
 
 
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Money Mule Recruiters use ASProx's Fast Fluxing Services

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2008-07-18 06:23:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...recipients worldwide. Recipients do not require a bank account or Internet connection to receive funds. We have teamed with select local disbursement partners to provide a convenient, secure, and cost-effective means of sending money to family, friends and business partners abroad. The basic requirements to send money/transfer money are 1)...
 
Tags: fast, fast flux networks, money, fast-flux, cashtransfers, fast flux provider, fast flux spam, transfer money, fast-flux infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recipients have deleted the e-mail and have confirmed that the file has been deleted and that the information has not been copied, printed, or downloaded Both plan administrators signed and delivered to Fidelity SPS a statement, confirming the facts described above and promising to maintain the confidentiality of any information that may...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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The top six corporate email risks

2007-10-27 19:27:40 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...recipient to gain a bad impression of the company that the sender is representing. A UK law firm had to find this out the hard way when two of their employees originated the Claire Swire email, a sexually explicit email that ended up being read by over 10 million people around the world. Especially since the company in question was a law...
 
Tags: risks, email risks, email, email disclaimer, email communications, companys email system, company network, company, explicit email
 
 
 
 
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Phish and Foul

2007-07-20 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...recipient's bank. A phishing expedition, though, can be profitable with only a few successes.) The remedies offered by the security community are numerous. Most prevalent are various types of red flags
 
Tags: sites, criminal sites, information, enter password information, online con game, e-mail, e-mail messages, security community, term suggests
 
 
 
 
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Sendmail Users Update ClamAV NOW!

2007-08-25 14:13:03 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...recipient field. There are no reports of real-world exploits using this vulnerability
 
Tags: easily exploitable vulnerability, vulnerability, scans e-mail, e-mail, clamav versions prior, inject shell code, clamav-milter, user input, server
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...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 hidden hyperlink....
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services mails Social Security numbers

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2008-01-08 16:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recipients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Informational brochures sent by the Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services to recipients of SeniorCare and other state programs were inadvertently printed with Social Security numbers on them. It is unknown how many...
 
Tags: wisconsin, social security, wisconsin medicaid, wisconsin department, family services, department, revenue department situation, revenue, health
 
 
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