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Indian Cyberspace hit by Kim Jong-II Malware Mails!

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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It has been observed that cybercriminals are using the name of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-II after his death to target Internet users. Attackers are achieving this by spamming malicious emails containing specially crafted PDF files named “BriefintroductionofKim-Jong-il.pdf” This PDF file has been found to exploit CVE-2010-2883 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat reader. […]

Fake Facebook alert for changing their password

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Facebook users are being targeted with fake emails pertaining to come from the social network and alerting them to change their password. The emails are sent from the spoofed email address “Facebook (update+{Random Characters}@facebookmail.com) with subjects like: -Security alert. -Your account information. -New notifications. The email comes with one of these attachments: -alert1523230352.zip -alertN75139832.zip -instructions2374870680.zip […]

Fake emails – USPS: Delivery Failed Notification

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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The United States Postal Service (also known as USPS, the Post Office or U.S. Mail) is an independent agency of the United States Government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. Scammers are taking advantage of it with specially crafted emails that are spreading over the Internet. The latest email pretends to be […]

Phishing Scam – Axis Bank

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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Scammers are once again targeting banks in order to dupe unsuspecting users. The latest victim of their attacks is Axis Bank. The phishing email contains an HTML file which displays a fake page upon execution. The page is a replica of the official Axis Bank online banking webpage. The scammer tries to create panic by […]

Fake emails – Adobe Critical Upgrade

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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A new fake email which pretends to be from Adobe is in the wild and spreading on the Internet. The email has an attachment which contains an executable file having PDF icon. If the user gets convinced by this email and executes the file the computer gets infected. The sample I came across installs a […]

UPS Invoice Notification spam campagin

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Another United Parcel Service (UPS) spam has been discovered and it carries the message “A new invoice is now available in the UPS Billing Centre. Please refer to attached file for more details”. The subject is: “Your UPS Invoice is Ready”. The email comes with an attachment called “UPS-Billing-Invoice-Notification-809288436661915.zip”. The email claims to be from […]

ACH Payment Canceled spam

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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A blast of new spam emails targeting computer users and attempting to infect them with a variant of a banking trojan has been discovered. The emails aim to achieve this by posing as ACH (Automated Clearing House) transfer failure notifications. The spam emails carry one of the following subject lines: -ACH payment canceled -ACH payment […]