Posts Tagged ‘virus’
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
Mailboxes are now receiving fake Skype upgrade spam sent from hijacked Rhapsody.com mail servers.
The current campaign arrives as:
Subject: New Skype Has Been Releases ! Upgrade Now
From: ”Skype” <newsletter@news.skype.com>
In an interesting twist, the spammers involved appear to have hacked and are in control of Rhapsody.com mail servers as the samples we’ve reviewed so far are actually from:
- mta900.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.40]
- mta902.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.42]
- mta903.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.43]
- mta904.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.44]
- mta905.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.45]
- etc., etc.
The spam email itself is as follows:
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Tags: botnet, email, fraud, malware, scam, spoofing, virus, zombie
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
A new version of an old virus fraud is circulating with a spoofed Microsoft address:
Subject: Critical security patch released!
From: Microsoft Corp. <windowsupdate@microsoft.com>
What’s clever and also amusing about this is it pretends to address a recent Microsoft update that addresses a different kind of spoofing:
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Tags: fraud, phishing, spam, spoofing, virus
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
After seeing countless bogus email campaigns claiming to be from UPS, DHL, Fed Ex and the United States Postal Service all used for spreading viruses, it was inevitable that we would also start seeing similar messages claiming to come from Canada Post arriving as:
Subject: Your package has arrived!
From: “Canada Post”<tracking@canadapost.ca>
While the From address says it’s from Canadapost.ca the latest batch actually came from Germany, via:
web08.konfigserver.de ([83.141.3.208])
Here’s the complete email:
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Tags: spam, spoofing, virus
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
A clever variation on the growing UPS deliver alert virus campaign is hitting harder each day. Emails arrive:
Subject: Your package has arrived!
From: UPS Shipments <tracking@ups.com>
The sending address is spoofed and not really from UPS.
The short but very efficient email notice continues: more »
Tags: spoofing, virus
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Emails spoofing Facebook notifications are back in force. Even though our filters stop them, many users assume they must be legitimate and will release them from quarantine, resending the original frauds to themselves.
Subject lines most commonly seen in this campaign are: more »
Tags: fraud, malware, phishing, spoofing, virus
Posted in Email Fraud, Phishing Lessons | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Social networking spam and virus messages are currently second only to online pharmacy spam, with the latest campaigns spoofing Linked In notification emails.
Most are Arriving with subjects of either:
Subject: LinkedIn Messages
Subject: Join my network on LinkedIn
The body of the messages themselves are fairly accurate spoofs of actual LinkedIn communications, for example:
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Tags: botnet, fraud, malware, spoofing, virus
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Apparently the botnets in charge of spreading viruses have decided to go random and wild this week. In an attempt to evade filtering and confuse end user recipients, they’re spewing vast amounts of emails and using a shotgun approach of randomization.
Sending addresses are all random and spoofed and the emails themselves are short and cryptic. Subject lines tend to be short and simple and run the gamut, just a few examples (we’re seeing hundreds of variations):
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Tags: botnet, malware, virus, zombie
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Heavy volume over the last few days in spoofed Target shipping confirmation emails which arrive from completely random addresses, such as:
Subject: Your Target.com order has shipped
From: ”Earnest Dickinson” <magma@rilapublicidad.com>
The spammers in the case have paid great attention to replicating legitimate Target emails:
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Tags: botnet, spoofing, virus
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Watch out for well designed, but spoofed invitations from Friendster currently making the rounds through spam driven email campaigns.
The samples we’ve reviewed so far arrive as:
Subject: Welcome to Friendster
From: Friendster <join@mail.friendster.com>
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