Articles Archive for 19 June 2009

Tattletale Spam Reveals Malicious File Instead of Gossip
Posted in Information and Removal on 19 June 2009

Cyber-criminals are now posing as a tattletale about to reveal something scandalous, as seen in a malicious spam run we’ve encountered recently.
The spam messages are posed to look similar to an email from YouTube, and arrive with a link, which is supposedly a video posted in the said video-sharing website.

The message is written in Portuguese [...]

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Tattletale Spam Reveals Malicious File Instead of Gossip

Australian Taxpayers Targeted by Phishing Attack
Posted in Information and Removal on 19 June 2009

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is calling the people to start thinking about lodging their 2008-2009 tax returns. And with this significant event on the rise, spammers are using this as a bait to promote phishing mails.
The mail contains a letter stating that it was from ATO. It informs the receiver that he or she [...]

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Australian Taxpayers Targeted by Phishing Attack