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

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

nihaorr1.com - there's no such thing as a "safe" site

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Websense gave a heads up about yet another mass defacement, impacting a few high profile web sites. Just to make life difficult, they didn...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Win32/Loodok!generic.2 in SYSTEM.DLL - likely false positive

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We're getting a plague of these with eTrust (pattern 5723): [time 22/04/2008 12:54:21: ID 14: machine xxxxx.com: response 22/04/2008 12:...
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Thursday, 17 April 2008

RavMon.exe virus on new Toshiba Satellite laptop from Comet, Part II

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A few weeks ago I wrote about a new laptop with a virus preloaded that was bought from Comet. As far as I knew, I was the only person to ha...
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

2117966.net revisited

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Last month I blogged about Trend Micro's website being compromised as well as thousands of others with an IFRAME injection to 2117966.n...
Thursday, 10 April 2008

ezBay.me.uk - or how NOT to start an online business

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Sometimes, people make mistakes with their online marketing. Newbies can accidentally buy a "millions of email addresses CD" with ...
Tuesday, 8 April 2008

419 Scams and Social Engineering

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One key element that scammers use when carrying out their business is social engineering. Usually, the approach is to make the victim believ...
Monday, 7 April 2008

"uslegaljobs.net" Money Mule Scam

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Money mule scams are usually associated with Eastern European criminals, but this one is slightly different originating from an IP address o...
Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Telephore - advertising gone too far?

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Context-sensitive ads are all the rage, but Telephore is the first one to bring them to your mobile phone.. nope, not text messages, but sp...
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Monday, 31 March 2008

BBC Argh

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The BBC News website is a much-loved design institution. A very neat, conservative design it has remained pretty much unchanged since its ...
Friday, 28 March 2008

A 419 spam with a twist

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419 scams often involve pandering to human greed. In this case, the email is clearly designed to make you think that you have lucked into $8...
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Thursday, 27 March 2008

Lazy 419 spam

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Is it me, or is the quality of scam spam going down these days? This fake lottery notification doesn't even try to look convincing. Subj...
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Is 97885 really Vodafone?

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The UK's premium rate SMS (text messaging) business is worth over £1 billion per year. It's not surprising then that scammers are in...
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Apple Safari - a driveby download or what?

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Millions of people are currently wondering what a "Safari" icon is doing on their Windows desktop. Is it something they installed?...
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Thursday, 20 March 2008

"Gold is Risky - Green is a solid investment" - eFoodSafety.com (EFSF.OB) Spam

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The Boulder Pledge is an important principle when it comes to fighting spam - basically, it is a commitment to never buy a product advertis...
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Thursday, 13 March 2008

Very authentic looking Hallmark ecard trojan

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A very authentic (but fake) trojan was send out overnight purporting to be from Hallmark.com A Friend has sent you a Hallmark E-Card. If you...
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trendmicro.com compromised - sort of.

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McAfee has flagged up another mass defacement on their blog here , various sites have been injected with a reference to hxxp:||www.2117966.n...
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Monday, 10 March 2008

Truckerjobsearch.com - spam, scam or stupidity?

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I'm not interested in trucks, there is no reason for anyone to send me an email about trucking. And usually, when I see email about ...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

StampOffers.com - Spam or Joe Job?

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There's a whole bunch of spam doing the rounds as follows: Subject: Sell for FREE Forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!! From: stampoffers@yahoo.com Dat...
Monday, 3 March 2008

RavMon.exe virus on new Toshiba Satellite laptop

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A few days ago I bought a very inexpensive Toshiba Satellite L40-18Z laptop from Comet in the UK. It's a basic laptop running Windows Vi...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Dating Scam Sites VI

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The return of a persistent spam.. which means that plenty of people are falling for it. Hello! I am bored today. I am nice girl that would l...
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