Posts Tagged ‘traps’

A new method to spread poisonous links though Facebook

Dec

2011

This time, bad guys still use a not-new-script, which is spreading poisonous links though social networking site Facebook to cheat users into accessing phishing, malicious websites. The new trick of this campaign is the faking of YouTube plugin for Firefox and Chrome browsers. This shows hackers’ investment, close following-up and continuous changes. Hackers convince users […]

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That package at the Royal Mail office? It’s malware

Oct

2011

Cybercriminals have spammed out malware, posing as an email from the Royal Mail. The emails, which claim that a package has been returned to the Royal Mail office, pretend to come from official-sounding addresses such as [email protected] or [email protected]. Opening the attached file could lead to your Windows computer being infected by a Trojan horse. […]

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UK student loans targeted by phishers in latest spam campaign

Sep

2011

With British students about to start another year at university, the last thing they probably want to hear is that there is a problem with a student loan. But that’s precisely the camouflage that online scammers are using to steal personal information today. An email, claiming to come from Directgov UK, tells students that there […]

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