Posts Tagged ‘salutation’

Email account hacked, phishing messages sent, traces obliterated – When a Gmail account has been attacked, the victim will need to put everything straight again

Aug

2013

Friends had contacted hacking victim Gunnar* early one morning via mobile, to check in person whether invitations they had received to view a Google Docs file were actually genuine. This was commendable behaviour on the part of the friends, as Gunnar still had no idea at this point that his account had been hacked. This […]

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Tax refund spams are back

Mar

2012

It’s that time of the year when people in some parts of the world are filing their tax returns, and what better time for cyber crooks to trick them into falling prey for phishing attacks via emails. India has been reported in recent malware threat reports as one of the regions with high spam activity […]

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Spam FAIL: Didn’t you learn to check your work at Spammer U.?

Aug

2011

The spam sample below from Commtouch Labs shows an unfortunate lost opportunity for the spammer – a message that might have reached its recipient and enticed him/her to click on the enclosed link.But the link leads to a parked domain, and based on its use of “Company ABC” and the fact that the spammer left […]

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