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Home   »   Archives for October 2008

PayPal’s 10th Year Anniversary Phished

  • Posted on:October 31, 2008 at 4:29 pm
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Luisa Villasabas (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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As PayPal celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, the Trend Micro Content Security Team also discovered a phishing website that uses the occasion to lure users into its trap. This fraudulent site informs online visitors that PayPal is throwing a party to celebrate the anniversary, supposedly as a way of letting its customers know how…

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Tags: eBayMobilepaypal

Portuguese YouTube Spam Leads Users To Japan, Then To Malware

  • Posted on:October 29, 2008 at 8:38 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Joey Costoya
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Our honeypots captured spammed email messages, written in Portuguese, supposedly coming from the popular video sharing website YouTube. Figure 1. Sample email message (forwarded). The message body translates into the following: Hello, Attention! Someone has published a video you appear in, and your name was mentioned in several videos this evening. To report, Click Here!…

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Tags: Portugese spamyoutube

Popular Mexican News Anchor Died!

  • Posted on:October 29, 2008 at 8:36 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Aljerro Gabon (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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At least that’s what a new spam run tells you. Email messages claiming to be from Esmas, the largest television network in Mexico and also the world’s largest producer of Spanish language media, inform users that JoaquĂ­n LĂłpez-DĂłriga has died in an automobile accident. LĂłpez-DĂłriga is one of the more popular news anchors in Mexico….

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Tags: mexicoSpam

Celebrities and Politicians Running Afoul of Hackers

  • Posted on:October 24, 2008 at 7:32 am
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)
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Newsflash: Sarah Palin may no longer be the most famous victim of electronic crime. French President Nicolas Sarkozy found himself a contender for that dubious title following news reports that hackers managed to steal some money from his personal bank account. While it is not yet clear how Sarkozy’s account information was stolen, some analysts…

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Tags: celebrityhackingpoliticians

Certificated Invoices – Exploiting LNK extension

  • Posted on:October 24, 2008 at 7:21 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Alice Decker (Senior Threat Researcher)
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In Germany we noticed a new massive wave of “Rechnung” malware spammed mails continue today with a special scam inside. The messages received today have diverse subject lines (“Abbuchung”, “Lastschrift”, “Amtsgericht”). The email bodies are also differently written, however have the same meaning – the information that money have been debit directly from the user’s…

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Tags: LastschriftrechnungZertifikat
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