Spam and Phishing

Incidents

Hot Fail On SexBoosters

Over the last couple of days we’ve been noticing a few pharmacy spam mails which are a bit different. Somebody seems to have replaced the original graphical content with an alert highlighting that such messages are malicious.

Incidents

Spammers hacked pool

In recent spam mails we have often noticed links to *.html files with random names. Another trend is that the cybercriminals do not even bother to register domains for their dirty deeds but simply plant their malicious code on compromised hosts. “Simply?” one may ask and sadly the answer seems to be “yes” based on our observations.

Research

Easy money, social networks and prison as the reward

Some months ago my colleague Roel Schouwenberg wrote a blog post about a money mule recruitment campaign through Facebook. We’ve been monitoring this activity and found new, quite active and successful campaigns of the same recruitment purpose and in the same social network but with a bit different approach: creating groups to follow.

Reports