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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Original phishing email for egg bank account owners

admin 23/03/2010 23/03/2010Phishing egg, egg bank, egg phish 1

MX Lab intercepted an original, well that’s our opinion on this, phishing email campaign for egg bank account owners. The email was sent from the spoofed email address Egg Bank Plc <[email protected]> with the subject “Account…

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New Bredolab variant target Facebook users

admin 17/03/2010 17/03/2010Viruses Facebook trojan, Malware, trojan, virus 3

MX Lab intercepts a new Bredolab trojan variant masked as an email from Facebook sent from the spoofed email address The Facebook Team <[email protected]>. The subject of the message is “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Your Support.”…

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Phishing emails with attached HTML forms instead of embedded URLs

admin 13/03/2010 13/03/2010Phishing 4

MX Lab noticed an increase of phishing emails with an attached HTML form instead of the embedded URLs that directs a user to an online form. Phishing emails with an embedded URL are subject to…

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Explorer SPAM Detector for Public is malware

admin 13/03/2010 13/03/2010Spam, Viruses Explorer SPAM Detector, Malware, Symantec, trojan 2

MX Lab intercepted a few messages with the subject “Systematic Security Software : Explorer SPAM Detector for Public” send from the spoofed address Systematic Inc <[email protected]>. The email offers a software tool called Explorer Spam Detector…

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Email with subject "scan upon download" contains trojan

admin 09/03/2010 09/03/2010Viruses Malware, TibsPk-D, trojan, virus 2

MX Lab started to intercept a few emails with the subject “scan upon download” coming from randomly spoofed email addresses. The trojan is named Suspicious:W32/Malware!Gemini (F-Secure) or Mal/TibsPk-D (Sophos) and is able to create malicious…

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Directory scam: Registration of the World Business Directory 2010/2011

admin 09/03/2010 09/03/2010Various directory scam, EU Business Services Ltd, scam, World Business Directory 99

MX Lab reported in 2009 about the misleading marketing trick that the World Business Directory uses. Guess what, they are back! MX Lab received a new registration form from the World Business Directory and again,…

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Web site creator hosts are being abused in spam campaigns

admin 06/03/2010 06/03/2010Spam 0

Spammers are not afraid to abuse community sites or blog creators like blogspot.com in their spam campaigns. In some cases, the content is published on these site or a redirect is embedded and forwards the…

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