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Tax evasion? Don’t need that! Spam email promises tax refund! – Fake German Federal Central Tax Office (FCTO) feedback wants to phish sensitive user data

Jun

2012

Tax payers are currently waiting for their tax office’s feedback and the fake email sent to users’ inboxes suggests being a legitimate feedback with a promised tax refund of almost ?235. We’ve seen other mails with different refund values, but the scheme remains the same. The outward appearance of this email is rather convincing, but […]

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Security 101: Questions & Answers from readers

May

2012

The magazine PC.COM (Malaysia) is publishing on a monthly basis the questions and answers coming from their readers. The editor of the magazine was kind to allow us to publish the questions and the answers I provided. This means that every month we will have a special article with questions and answers. What’s the difference […]

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Users receive malware instead of travel documents – Fake booking confirmations lure users into malware trap

May

2012

The holidays are getting closer and many people are using the Internet to find out information on holiday destinations or even conveniently book their entire holiday over the Internet. In fact over 14 million people in Germany have booked a holiday via the Internet in the past year (source: VuMa 2011). Online criminals are picking […]

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Tax evasion? Don’t need that! Spam email promises tax refund! – Fake German Federal Central Tax Office (FCTO) feedback wants to phish sensitive user data

Security 101: Questions & Answers from readers

Users receive malware instead of travel documents – Fake booking confirmations lure users into malware trap

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