Posts Tagged ‘fake messages’

Russian Odnoklassniki spamming

Oct

2012

Recently, we’ve noticed that there are too many legitimate domains popping up in our url filters with malware. At first we thought we had a huge false-positive (FP) problem, but after analysis we found a pattern. All of the referring links came from the Russian Odnoklassniki server, which is a quite-popular Russian social network. Users […]

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Malicious Email Messages Posing as Antivirus Notifications

Aug

2012

Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network intercepted a malicious email campaign posing as antivirus notifications that warn users that their accounts may be blocked. These fake messages state that the victim's email address has been sending infected email to the mail server, and that the situation may be remedied if the user clicks a URL to download a free removal tool. The "free tool" is, […]

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Fake SMS Scams On Rise

Aug

2011

Fake SMS Scams are on rise in last few months. Fraudsters are mass spamming mobile users with fake messages claiming that they have won some Lottery or Lucky Draw from UK. Below are some of the scam messages: BT.UK: YOUR GSM NO.HAS WON 500,000GBP IN BTELECOM INT’L MOBILE DRAW TO CLAIM, SEND MOBILE NO,NAME AND […]

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