Spammers and Banking – Who is that banker in the e-mail?
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The spammers are always quick to take advantage of any news story or trend and the latest is a great example as the following news article shows.
Spam Filter Vendors Use Humour To Market Their Service
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The IT world can at some points be a little dull when marketing their services but here are some IT security companies that are using humorous videos to get their marketing message across.
If Your e-mail Address Starts With A You Get 10% More Spam!
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An interesting article that analyzed spam sent to both real and fake e-mail addresses over an 8 week period which shows that e-mail accounts that start with some letters get more spam than others. (Aardvarks vs. Zebra in the article).
In The Fight Against Spam Dutch Police Notify Users Infected with Bot Malware
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Dutch police have notified people whose computers were infected with malware that made them part of a botnet comprising more than 100,000 PCs. People were redirected to a web page containing directions on disabling the malware and a link to an online virus scanner.
“Bud Has Mail” – Watchguard Videos Worth Watching
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In the Internet Age online videos are becoming more and more prevalent as they are easily distributed and are often more effective at getting a point across then forcing the visitor to read a bunch of text.
With this in mind Watchguard released some nice video tutorials about network security that are entertaining and have some excellent ideas worth showing your average user.
TechRepublic – “Storm Worm: The Energizer Bunny of Botnets”
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Apart from a great title this is a very interesting read on what the Storm Worm is up to these days.
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Original article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=620&tag=nl.e102
In the world of botnets, Storm isn
New Spam Campaign – using CNN’s Daily Top 10 format
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A warning that we are seeing he beginning of a new spam campaign with a possible exploit vector. The e-mails claim to be from CNN based on the subject line but the from e-mail address are not at CNN. They also have links to videos and will probably either silently install malware or prompt you to install the
Airline E-ticket Email Scam
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With so many people cutting back on travel because of the high fuel prices the chance of getting a ‘free’ airline ticket anywhere will surely entice some percentage of people to open this attachment and get infected. If it sounds too good to be true… you know the saying.
CudaMail is currently blocking these as Trojan.Zbot variation.
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US-CERT Current Activity
Airline E-ticket Email Attack
Original release date: July 31, 2008 at 9:15 am Last revised: July 31, 2008 at 9:15 am
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that a new email attack is circulating. This attack uses email messages that appear to be from legitimate airlines and contain information about a bogus e-ticket.
These email messages instruct the user to open the attachment to obtain the e-ticket. If a user opens this attachment, a file may be executed to infect the user’s system with malicious code.
Reports, including a posting by Sophos, indicate that these messages have the following characteristics. Please note that these attributes may change at any time.
- The subject line “E-Ticket#XXXXXXXXXX”
- An attachment named “eTicket#XXXX.zip”
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to take the following preventative measures to help mitigate the security risks:
- Install anti-virus software, and keep its virus signature file up to date.
- Do not open attachments in unsolicited email messages.
- Refer to the Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams (pdf) document for more information on avoiding email scams.
- Refer to the Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks document for more information on social engineering attacks.
Relevant Url(s):
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-014.html
- www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/07/1604.html
- www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/emailscams_0905.pdf
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Here are some more Blog articles on Airline Ticket Email Scams:
The Register – “Beloved Websites Riddled With Crimeware”
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Great but quick article on how any website can be taken over and a great reason to use something like the Barracuda Website Firewall in front of your web servers.
