by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Matthew, one of our researchers at the AV Labs, flagged us regarding a Facebook scam he spotted late last weekend. And his timing could not have been more impeccable. The scam is about Southwest Airlines giving away free tickets. Now, as a practical rule of thumb, if...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
It seems scammers need to play a little catch up, or at least read the odd news site occasionally. Here’s an email going around trying out the well worn theme of “Google Anniversary” 419 scam mails: Click to Enlarge”We are pleased to inform you...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of our researchers noticed that searches in Yahoo! for popular programs will result in Yahoo! placing their own link as the first result, effectively bumping the official program links down into second place.Click to EnlargeClicking the first link takes you to the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a curious bit of spam mail involving the well worn subject of Green Card Lotteries:Click to EnlargeDid you know the “Department of State” send out random emails from a free MSN address? No, neither did I. This multicoloured monstrosity claims...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Bad adverts in Bing leading end-users to Malware downloads first popped up on our radar on the 16th of September, and we covered them again on the 19th. Well, they’re back again – this time promoting fake Firefox downloads whose ads are displayed when...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Desperate to purloin money out of stupid and desparate people, 419 scammers are now trying Google Calendar invites. The pain of it is that if you’re using Outlook, the calendar invite is automatically accepted and you get a reminder popping up. This has to be...