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ICICI Bank phishing scam: Information Regarding your Account

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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Today I got an interesting Email, it pretends to be from ICICI bank having Subject line:Information Regarding your Account. The Email contains ICICI-SECURITY.PDF file as an attachment. If you open the PDF file,it contains a link:www.icicibank.com/newonline-security If you click on this link, it directly puts you on below link: https://www.partyplayesr.nl/2010v01/includes/js/tabs/thame/access/index.html (Do not visit the link). […]

ICICI Phishing mail

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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Today we have received a Phishing mail as shown below having a PDF file as an attachment. In the PDF file it asks user to click the link and protect their bank account: When you click on a link it will be diverted to below website: Then you are tricked into entering credentials and the […]

Rogue software uses the name “Microsoft Security Essentials”

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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“Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Rogueware Alert” pop ups declaring that it was unable to remove Unknown Win32/Trojan threat Once user clicks on clean, it recommends to online scan and shows legitimate AVs names. In addition it also shows free install for Rogue software “Red Cross”, “Peak Protection”, “Pest Detector”, “Major Defense Kit” “AntiSpy Safeguard” Once […]

Online Form Site Builder usage

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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The phishing community has discovered new way to collect the information from victims. They now are using Online Form Site Builder service to create form and collect victim’s data. We received a mail targeting ICICI bank user, which contained a html file as an attachment. The subject line of the mail is “Exclusive Privacy Option […]

United Parcel Service (UPS) Tracking scam email

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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We are seeing rise in scam email posing as tracking mail notification from US based delivery company United Parcel Service. The mail pretends to be from UPS it has subject line Delivery problem. It notify user… We failed to deliver postal package sent on so on date… in time because the recipent’s address is wrong. […]

Update Mozilla Firefox

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Firefox 3.6.4 has been released, this version address 7 vulnerabilities which range from critical issues such as denial of service or arbitrary code execution bugs along with a few lower level issues. Below is list of critical vulnerabilities fixed in this version MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting MFSA 2010-29 Heap buffer overflow […]

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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The vulnerability for Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center is being exploited in the wild. More information for this vulnerability at https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2219475.mspx . The vulnerability allows for infecting a Windows system by visiting manipulated web sites, for example (drive-by-download). Microsoft now has released a “Fix It” tool which unregisters the HCP protocol as a workaround, […]

Save our tigers website is compromised

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Yesterday while traveling to office I saw the hoarding of save tiger the on-going initiative undertaken by Aircel partnered with WWF-India to help “Save Our Tigers”. According to the latest Tiger census in India we have only 1411 left in wild. So I thought of joining this initiative by doing my bit so when i […]

DHL Delivery Mail lead to Rogueware

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Below mail landed in my mailbox today with an attachment DHL_Tracking_NR.324-492383.zip, as curious user i went to check it ————————————————————————– Subject: DHL Tracking number #1488883 From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, May 24, 2010 10:09 am To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Good morning, We were not able to deliver postal package you sent on the 22nd May in time because […]

SMS scams

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Today I received a SMS message with following text: CONGRATS-YOU-WON-700,000-GBP- IN 2010-UK-TOYOTA WORLDWIDE- INT’L-MMOBILE-DRAWS-WINNING -#1,TO-CLAIM-YOUR PRIZE CONTACT MR.BEN VIA EMAIL:xxxxxxxx2010@hotmail.com Its not something new, malware writers/ cyber criminals are attempting to fool mobile phone users with such bogus text messages. Mobile user are increasing day by day so is the SMS (Short Message Service). The […]

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