Tag: social engineering
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Fourth of July targeted by trojan spam
Celebration card emails carry links to malware. A further wave of greetings-card spam has been widely seeded, in the wake of considerable Storm Worm activity in the last week, with subject lines focusing on Independence Day celebrations under way today in the US. The wave of spams mostly contain web links to JavaScript downloaders, which…
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Fake updates and phony postcards carry malware
Microsoft patch and greetings card spams bring more trojans. Several spam runs posing as vulnerability alerts from Microsoft have been spotted in the last week, with links to supposed patches in fact leading to malware downloads. Since then, a resurgence of the trojans dubbed the ‘Storm Worm’, seeded in several waves earlier in the year,…
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Phishing moves into more new areas
Surveys, phone lines, USB sticks and call girls the latest tactics for spammers and phishers. The latest social-engineering methods being put to use by phishers show no let up in the evolution of online scams, with several new twists on old ideas being sent via mass mail in the hopes of hooking yet more gullible…