Dynamoo's Blog

Malware, spam, scams and random stuff, by Conrad Longmore.

Saturday, 19 January 2008

River Great Ouse, Bedford: 19/1/08

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I know that it's winter, but in the UK we've had nothing but rain, rain and more rain. Our local river is right up to banks and with...
Wednesday, 16 January 2008

"Colls Solution Company" Scam Email

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This is a UK-target scam, using email addresses harvested from an online retailer who had a security breach. This one appears to be more tha...
Monday, 14 January 2008

The BBC iPlayer in a corporate environment

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The BBC have spent a lot of time and money developing the BBC iPlayer it turns out that it's just another P2P application running on Ko...
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CA PestPatrol false positive - NeoSpy / rarsfx0 directory / WinRAR

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Another false positive doing the rounds, this time in CA's PestPatrol software which is incorrectly identifying %profile%\local settings...
Sunday, 13 January 2008

Arcanely Worded Scam of the Month Award

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OK, so I don't really have an Arcanely Worded Scam of the Month Award, but if I did then this rather bizarre email would count. It is, o...
Wednesday, 9 January 2008

eTrust ITM 8.1 fails to update

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I've been grappling with a strange problem with eTrust ITM 8.1 for a couple of weeks - the software installs just fine, but the signatur...
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Friday, 4 January 2008

CA.com compromised / Zero-day RealPlayer flaw

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The ISC reports that several websites have been compromised by a zero-day vulnerability in RealPlayer. The halware is hosted or routed via ...
Thursday, 3 January 2008

JS/Exploit-BO false positive in McAfee

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In what looks like a re-run of a recent false positive from eTrust , McAfee Anti-Virus is detecting JS/Exploit-BO in a number of innocent ja...
Monday, 31 December 2007

Js/snz.a - likely false positive in eTrust / Vet Anti-Virus

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It appears that CA's eTrust Anti-Virus product (also known as Vet Anti-Virus, often bundled with other security applications such as Zon...
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Thursday, 27 December 2007

Dating Scam Sites V

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Another bunch of dating scam sites, to follow on from these . Hosted on 210.14.129.25. Engineride.info Enginewreck.info Glorylandusa.info Gl...
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Highly targeted phish - frauddept@ustreas.gov

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This is a highly targeted phish aimed at senior management in a company. The manager (typically a principle officer or other named contact) ...
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Monday, 19 November 2007

Dating Scam Sites IV

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More domains that seem to be associated with this dating scam , this time hosted on 210.14.129.25 in China. Alpenshine.info Bunlight.info Ch...
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Yourmusic.com ad banners sering up malware

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For at least a week, Virgin Media (and probably other sites) have been serving up compromised ads for Yourmusic.com that direct their users ...
Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Yet more dating scam sites

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Another set of dating scam domains related to these and these . The email follows a similar pattern to: Hello! I am tired tonight. I am nic...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Savings Pioneer (savingspioneer.com) Spam

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"Savings Pioneer" (savingspioneer.com) is a persistent spammer who constantly shifts between privacy protected domains and sending...
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Monday, 17 September 2007

More dating scam sites

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Another bunch of scam sites relating to the dating scam we described a few days ago here . The set up is the same - a spam email from a fake...
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Sunday, 9 September 2007

NatWest Phishing Phish

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Phishers will try anything - this particular one is aimed specifically at UK-harvested email addresses and pretends to be a warning about.. ...
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Thursday, 30 August 2007

"Harvey Investment Company" bogus emails

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The Harvey Investment Company is a wholly legitimate organisation with a domain name of harveyinvestment.com . However, there are also a se...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

"Vegas Casino World" trojan

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This is yet another variant of the Storm worm which has been sending out bogus postcard notifications and the like for some time now. The em...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

Netgear WG511 V2 Review

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What do I think of the Netgear WG511 V2 ? This is what I think of the Netgear WG511 V2.. a completely and utterly useless wireless network...
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