Category Archives: Spam/Phishing Analysis
Malaysian Phishing in real-time
Since several weeks we see a higher amount of spam/phish Emails in Malaysia. Recently, our Virus Lab in Malaysia came across phishing mails in the Malay language impersonating the Hong Leong bank. Even if this phishing attack has only a local … Continue reading
Fake LinkedIn emails pointing to online pharmacy websites
We have written many times already about fake LinkedIn emails which lead most of the time to online pharmacy websites and possibly to also infected websites. The latest spams, similar to those we already wrote about, are pretending to come … Continue reading
Speed ticket from NY Police via email
No, it is actually a pretty interesting spam email which I received. The emails pretend to come from New York State ”Department of Motor Vehicles” and informs the recipient that he/she violated the speed limit . In order to see more … Continue reading
Would you buy security software advertised in a spam?
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 … Continue reading
Spam gives a “proper” name and description to the money mule job
A “money mule” is a person, an intermediate, that receives potentially illegally obtained money from someone and redirects them to someone else. Of course, the intermediary receives a percent of the transaction. In other words, this is nothing else than … Continue reading
Extremely complex phishing attack against German Postbank
I don’t write very often about phishing attempts which aren’t international, but this phishing attack against the German Postbank is extremely special and it deserves a through analysis. I received the phishing email below on one of my private email … Continue reading
New type of Nigerian scam or just a spam from “FBI”
From time to time, we see in our labs really funny emails pretending to be deadly serious. This time, I received one such email on my personal email address, and I couldn’t stop laughing after reading it full. And this, … Continue reading
The “reset your password” frenzy used to advertise online pharmacy websites
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 … Continue reading
Fake LinkedIn emails to reset your password
We see LinkedIn in the news quite often because of their recent campaigns in all the media. What the company doesn’t proudly advertise is the fact that their brand is lately often used in various spam campaigns. Most of these spam campaigns are … Continue reading