Posts Tagged ‘police authority’

New Ransomware Plays Its Victims an Audio File, Over and Over and Over.

Oct

2012

Ransomware continuously evolves and updates its social engineering tactics to trick users into paying money to the cybercriminals.The samples we’re seeing today not only leverage the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or any police authority for that matter), but on this occasion also use a non-malicious .MP3 file!This audio file repeatedly informs users that their system […]

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Diplomat held at JFK airport with a lot of cash – a convoluted Nigerian email scam

Oct

2011

Email scams often take various forms – but typically they will claim that you have the chance to pick up millions of dollars (perhaps from Mrs Gaddafi, or a non-existent lottery, or a serviceman who has stumbled across a fortune while despots flee the country). Victims are tricked into handing over money in advance (this […]

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Northumbria Police Authority website defaced, serving Phish for breakfast

Aug

2011

It seems the Northumbria Police Authority website (northumbriapoliceauthority(dot)org(dot)uk) was compromised recently to push a “fight the power” message, and it looks like the defacement is the least of their worries as you’ll see shortly. What is the Northumbria Police Authority? We could use my wonderful description (“An Authority for the Northumbria Police”), but I think […]

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