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…
Read MoreOur 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!…
Read MoreAt 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 Joaquín López-Dóriga has died in an automobile accident. López-Dóriga is one of the more popular news anchors in Mexico….
Read MoreNewsflash: 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…
Read MoreIn 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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