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Would you buy security software advertised in a spam?

10

Aug

2012

We received a spam email which advertises protection against Internet threats. The email comes from “Top Anti Virus Software” , an email address from a domain in India. There are only two links in the email, both pointing to the same URL from India which was used in the From field. At that address, of […]

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Mail pretending to come from the German Post delivers malware

24

Jul

2012

German readers will laugh when reading the text in original, received via a recent spam campaign. In a free translation, the original text written more in a German slang would translate to: Dear customer, Our postman couldn’t deliver a package to your address. Reason: an error in the address You can get your package in […]

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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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