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Malicious Email Messages Posing as Antivirus Notifications

28

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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As real estate market heats up, so do real estate phishing emails

12

Jul

2012

The real estate market in the United States is showing signs of heating up, and spammers are taking advantage of the increased activity by sending thousands and thousands of email phishing messages. Disguised as real estate listing notifications the messages are sent with the hope that harried home buyers, desperate for new properties, will unwittingly […]

Category General Written by The Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog 0 Comments

Malicious App Sends Bogus Facebook Warnings

07

Jun

2012

Today, I received a couple of requests from my friends on Facebook. Each included the phrase “WARNING FROM FACEBOOK TEAM.“ The requests looked suspicious because they came from friends, and the Facebook team never sends such warnings. A little quick analysis found that those requests were actually sent from a fake application called hxxp://apps.facebook.com/secureverifyssdc/. Here […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

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