Spamvertised ‘You have 1 lost message on Facebook’ campaign leads to pharmaceutical scams

February 2, 2012 – 3:53 pm

By Dancho Danchev A currently spamvertised spam campaign is redirecting users to pharmaceutical scams, in an attempt to trick them into purchasing counterfeit pharmaceutical items. More details:

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Phishers Cast Their Nets in the Social Media Pool

June 21, 2011 – 8:23 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director It can seem at times that the only people who like change are Internet attackers. And they don’t just like it—they need it. Technology’s rapid changes give cybercriminals new attack vectors to exploit, and new ways to turn a profit out of someone else’s misfortune. Take phishing, for example. [...]

By imoyse | Posted in Botnet activity, hijack search results, Keyloggers, phishing, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

Webroot Answers Your Security Questions

April 5, 2011 – 9:05 am

By Andrew Brandt I’m very pleased to present today the first in a series of videos we’ve produced. The videos have the lofty goal of addressing the most pressing questions relating to malware, cybercrime, and online fraud. We’ll take you behind the scenes at Webroot and introduce you to some of our Threat Research team [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Fishing for Phishers is a Full-Time Job

February 23, 2011 – 12:30 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director We seem to take phishing attacks for granted these days, in much the same way that we’ve accepted spam as a natural, and inevitable, by-product of email. Some experts believe that one of the best solutions to thwart phishing attacks is end-user training, but I doubt training alone can [...]

By imoyse | Posted in Gaming threats, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, spam | Tags: , , , | Comments (1)

Your Federal Tax Payment Has Not Been Rejected

October 13, 2010 – 4:26 pm

By Andrew Brandt It’s been more than a week since we started seeing spam email, supposedly sent by the EFTPS (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, a division of the US Department of the Treasury), informing recipients in dire, bolded text that Your Federal Tax Payment ID: 01037513 has been rejected. I had hoped it would [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Facebook Spam Leads to Viagra Vendor, Drive-by Download

May 28, 2010 – 10:08 am

By Andrew Brandt Annoying as they are, the spam emails circulating that supposedly come from Facebook don’t merely lead the recipient to one of those so-called Canadian Pharmacy pill-vendor websites. They now come with a bonus: An infection, courtesy of a malicious iframe which attempts a series of exploits against the browser, Adobe Reader, and [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Pushu Variant Spams Hotmail, Cracks Audio Captchas

March 22, 2010 – 5:01 am

By Andrew Brandt A new version of Trojan-Pushu is doing some interesting stuff to bypass captchas used by Microsoft’s Hotmail/Live.com/MSN webmail services in order to spam people with links to malicious Yahoo Groups pages. The three-year-old spy (known by a variety of other aliases, including Cutwail, Pushdo, Diehard, and Rabbit) has always been, primarily, a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Massive Spam Campaign Impersonates Social Networks

February 5, 2010 – 4:25 pm

By Andrew Brandt Spammers are the source of a flood of messages that appear to originate from various social networks, including Facebook and Myspace, as well as popular sites like iTunes. The spam messages usually just contain a link, and possibly a few words. Their subject matter falls into three general categories common to most [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, social networks, spam | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Lazy Phishers Just Email the Phishing Web Page to You, Now

October 26, 2009 – 7:44 pm

By Andrew Brandt It was a particularly busy weekend for spammers, especially the creepy, evil ones who are trying to steal information (as opposed to the merely scungy pill vendors and their ilk). Webroot’s Threat Research team has recently seen a glut of phishing messages which, like most, purport to come from banks and ask you to update [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (9)

Spammers Use Bing to Bypass Filters, Spam Bad Links

October 19, 2009 – 4:12 pm

By Andrew Brandt Word came down from our Threat Research team this morning about a new spam campaign that uses upstart Bing search engine’s own redirection mechanism to bypass spam filters and send undesirable links over email. On top of that, the spammers are also abusing MySpace’s lnk.ms link shrinking system to further obfuscate the destination [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , | Comments (12)
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