Recently we found this scam saying: “Tragic…this girl killed herself because of what her dad posted on her wall… how sad and wrong” It was posted via “My Best Stalkers” which seems to be some kind of facebook application. Furthermore, it uses a fake BBC video player to trick Facebook users. If you click on […]
Spammers keep on using different techniques to hijack social networking accounts. “Free Complimentary FB T-shirt” is observed to be the latest Facebook spam. This spam posts an image on your profile when you are infected. This image is shown below: You might notice that the link in the image is shortened in order to prevent […]
The email shown below seems to arrive from United Parcel Service (UPS) International Shipping Company but in reality it is not. In fact, it has a hidden link to a malicious website. It downloads a binary invoice[random_number].JPG.exe with double extensions which looks as if it is an image file. Quick Heal detects this file as […]
Recently we received the following email: This is a fake “IRS Notification”. As can be seen from the mail, it asks the user to fill up the following form: We have been seeing many such fake notification mails containing an attachment like “IRS document.zip”. After analysis we found that it is connecting to random IPs. […]
Today we received the following email: ************************************************************** From: “Squirrel Mail Development Team” Subject: UPDATE YOUR E-MAIL SECURITY IMMEDIATELY (IUEU) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:14:23 +0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-EMLSPAM: 0 X-EMLSPAM-SCORE: -100 Dear E-Mail User Due to the package compromise of 1.4.11,1.4.12 and 1.4.13, we are forced to release 1.4.15 to ensure […]
Microsoft has released two Critical updates: MS11-057 (Internet Explorer): This security update resolves 5 privately reported vulnerabilities and 2 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. Microsoft is not aware of any attacks leveraging […]
Adobe have released Bulletins and Advisories for the below products: Adobe Shockwave Player Affected software versions Shockwave Player11.6.0.626 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-19.html Adobe Flash Media Server Affected software versions Flash Media Server 4.0.2 and earlier versions for Windows and Linux Flash Media Server 3.5.6 and earlier versions for Windows and Linux […]
Below image shows the fake email supposedly send by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), that is being circulated on the internet. If you click on the Click Here to Update Your Account it will take you to a fake RBI site that will collect your customer id and password as shown in the below image. […]
Are you one of the many people who is using a dangerously easy-to-guess password? Now is the time to fix that before it’s too late. Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gmail, Rediff and Yahoo are amongst the popular websites which are used by most of the people. And most of these websites are advising users to […]
Adobe has issued a security warning over a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player, Adobe Reader, and Acrobat software packages which can lead to remote code execution The attack, which exists in Flash Player on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android along with the Windows and Mac OS X versions of Adobe Reader […]
