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Amusing Craigslist phishing

17

Aug

2011

The best way to double check that the page you are visiting is a legitimate page and not a phishing site, is to verify the domain name in the address bar (obviously, this does not work in case of DNS hijacking). Phishers have used a variety of techniques to make the URL look legitimate, like […]

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Cycbot: Ready to Ride

16

Jul

2011

My Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov report that recently a cybercrime group called “Ready to Ride” has attracted their attention, by distributing malware of the Win32/Cycbot family. This group started in the fall last year, judging from the domain name registration date – readytoride.su was registered on 8th September 2010.Its primary activities were […]

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Google docs phishing

01

Jul

2011

A hazard of cloud-based services is reputation hijacking — using the cover of a legitimate cloud service to do bad things. For example, you can’t block the domain “Google.com”, because it has legitimate purposes. So a network administrator is left in a difficult quandrary. As an example, Google Docs (specifically, Spreadsheets), is a playpen for […]

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