Posts Tagged ‘amount of money’

United States Cyber Security Ransomware Scam

Sep

2012

In this blog post, I would like to introduce one variant of the widely spread malware family, often detected by avast! as “Reveton.” Reveton is classified as ransomware; a program which locks your computer and expects an action, usually the payment of money. Unless the desired amount of money is paid or the malicious application […]

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Fake AT&T email Installs Malware

Aug

2012

Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network detected a massive phishing campaign targeting AT&T customers. More than 200,000 fake emails are masquerading as billing information from the giant American communication services provider. Each message claims that there is a bill of a few hundreds US dollars. In itself, the amount of money could be big enough to raise suspicion in most of us. Also, it is easy […]

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Multiply multilingual – Email scams aren’t just from Nigeria

May

2012

They used to be called “Letters from Nigeria”, but it’s not such a good name these days. Because they can come from any corner of the world, in a multitude of languages.Many of us are all too familiar with the emails we can receive out of the blue, suggesting that a fortune is within our […]

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