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How hackers tried to break into my wife’s 1&1 account – via the phone

Jun

2011

Sophos senior security engineer David Schwartzberg describes how scammers tried to break into his wife’s online account at web-hosting firm 1&1 – via the telephone.It was June 17th, 2011, during a Friday afternoon at 4:01pm Central Time when I received a telephone call from a guy called Mike.Mike introduced himself and that he’s in the […]

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Hackers steal site content, infect people

Jun

2011

I was about to contact the owners of ‘water for people’ but something stopped me in my tracks: The site I was looking at (c0re.us) was spoofing content from www.waterforpeople.org With the one difference that hackers included a drive-by download: Among other things, this code snippet triggers a Java drive-by (coldhardcash4us.com/images/modules/helpers/JavaSignedApplet.jar): The ultimate payload comes […]

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