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

Friday, 28 November 2008

French "Bill Gates" lottery scam

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A colourful lottery scam featuring Bill Gates. The pitch is that the Bill Gates Foundation is running a lottery and you have won €400,000 wh...
Wednesday, 26 November 2008

SINOCHEM bogus job offer

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Nice for them to label this as "spam". SINOCHEM is a legitimate and huge Chinese chemicals company, but they did not send this e...
Tuesday, 25 November 2008

bobbear.co.uk "Joe Job" attack

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Monday, 24 November 2008

"Ran-De-Vou Co." proofreading scam

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Sometimes it is hard to see what the scam is with some of the job offers, except that undoubtedly it IS a scam. This job offer from the fict...
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Saturday, 22 November 2008

"Louvre Tec Products Ltd" job offer scam

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LouvreTec is a wholly legitimate New Zealand company using the domains www.louvretec.co.nz, louvretec.net, louvretec.com and other similar ...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

ISC: Large quantity SQL Injection mitigation

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The ISC have given some good guidance on SQL injection mitigation , in case your server has been hit by Asprox or something similar. It'...
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Microsoft Morro: free anti-virus software for consumers

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This might be a good deal for cash-strapped consumers, but a bad deal for other anti-virus companies. Anyway, "Microsoft Morro...
Friday, 14 November 2008

McColo dead - spam 69% down

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If there was any doubt the McColo was behind a vast majority of the world spam, then I think the figures speak for themselves. We're see...
Thursday, 13 November 2008

Estdomains and McColo sentenced to death

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After some hesitation, ICANN have finally decided to terminate Estdomains , who most people in the security industry regarded as a rogue reg...
Monday, 10 November 2008

"DOMAIN LISTINGS CENTER" spam

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For some reason, I am seeing a big upswing in Canadian spam at the moment. This one is a very misleading offer entitled "ANNUAL WEBSITE...
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Saturday, 8 November 2008

SGP / melsongroup.net scam job offer

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This is a generic sort of money mule scam email, of interest because it has the domain name melsongroup.net registered to handle the emai...
Thursday, 6 November 2008

"JavaRealm Software" job offer scam

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JavaRealm Software (javarealm.com) is a wholly legitimate software development company from the Ukraine. This fraudulent job offer uses the...

Stupid but sophisticated "Lloyds TSB" phish

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Spammers are generally pretty stupid. This particular phish looks pretty normal to being with: Customer Service department Lloyds TSB Bank S...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

"App LLC Group." scam

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Another ridiculously worded scam job offer, essentially identical to this one . Subject: How for short time to earn $1200 in a week? R...
Tuesday, 4 November 2008

"Recovery KEYS for your account" trojan

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Another day, another ZIP-in-EXE trojan with a lot of spaces in it. Subject: Recovery KEYS for your account Good afternoon, [vict...
Monday, 3 November 2008

"Colorado Business Bank - Network Security and Monitoring"

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These banks get more obscure all the time, but still carry the same sort of malicious payload. Subject: Colorado Business Bank - Netwo...
Friday, 31 October 2008

Dating scams and 79.135.168.*

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We've seen this type of dating scam several times before. No good will come of engaging "Chantel" in conversations as she does...
Thursday, 30 October 2008

"Apollo Business Services" / scam job offer

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Spammers are stupid. This job offer scam combines two different offers, both of which are fraudulent. Part one is for "Apollo Business ...

"Auction Sales Online" job scam

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It isn't always clear what the scam is with these fake job offers, but it seems that fraudsters need to recruit a large number of patsie...
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Estdomains is not dead yet

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Thanks to Sandi for bringing the not-so-good-news that Estdomains is not quite dead yet . For a moment it looked like ICANN had grown some c...
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