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The “reset your password” frenzy used to advertise online pharmacy websites

12
Jun
2012

After last week’s panic in regards to password leakage and requests to change passwords, we started to see already attempts to misuse this recommendation. There are emails pretending to come from IMDB with subjects like: – Your password is too short – Your password is too weak basically asking the user to login and change […]

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Reset your Facebook password – and visit WikiPharmacy!

04
Jun
2012

Using phony Facebook emails to draw recipients to pharmacy websites is not a new trick. But this is no ordinary Viagra shop – it’s the WikiPharmacy! The phony Facebook emails and the pharmacy destination are shown below: Not surprisingly, the links in the emails above lead to compromised websites. These unknowingly host redirects to the […]

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Fake LinkedIn emails to reset your password

04
Jun
2012

We see LinkedIn in the news quite often because of their recent campaigns in all the media. What the company doesn’t proudly advertise is the fact that their brand is lately often used in various spam campaigns. Most of these spam campaigns are nothing else than puny attempts to redirect users to online pharmacy websites. […]

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