Are you looking for information on the London 2012 Olympic Games or tickets to the games? Then call the London Olympics 2012 Ticket Information service on: …Actually please don’t! Their grey small-print ad declares that calls cost £1.02 per minute and rightly (but pretty much illegibility) claims “this service is not connected with the London2012.com Read more…
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Approximately two hours after an 8.9 earthquake hit northeast Japan we spotted the first potential donation scam site. We’ve seen this before of course, but for a scam site to appear in just two hours–indexed and with content–is pretty damn quick in my experience. Hundreds of domains that could be related to the disaster have Read more…
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This little gem of a spam run was widely broadcast last night and caused some alarm. Take a look, I’m sure you’ll see why. Sale! 1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form. 2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only). 4. New shipment of cocaine has arrived, buy 9 grams and get 10th for Read more…
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About a year or so ago one of the “McMarketeers” decided it would be fun to run a campaign against “fram”–spam that friends send you. As you might guess, we in the Labs have no friends, so it was no problem for us to ridicule the idea. However, around the coffee machine the other day Read more…
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Today, Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report is out, and it’s no surprise that it’s littered with fake AV/security product threats–four out of the top five threats in the United States, no less. Let me show you that with a keen eye and our threat intelligence databases, the same group are responsible for a diverse set of Read more…
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The Swine Flu pill spam has started and it’s taking a few Hollywood stars names in vain. Nothing out of the ordinary with the sites on the far end yet though I do expect Oseltamivir [AKA Tamiflu] will get some extra exposure once the affiliate pill sites are updated. Subjects: First US swine flu victims! Read more…
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Igor Muttik just had a parcel arrive whilst I was nearby. McAfee has just won the Lowest False Alarm Rate award from AV Comparatives for VirusScan. ….I didn’t stay for the speech For those who do not know, false alarms are caused where an anti-virus product detects a clean file as infected and is something Read more…
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Google’s code-hosting project is the latest free service to be abused by web spammers. We’ve seen one or two previously, but over the holidays the situation appears to have got much worse. They are creating lots of new projects with the following type of website on: Clicking the image will take you to today’s fake Read more…
Tags: chris barton, google, google code, in.cgi, labs, McAfee Labs, msn spaces, traffic manager
You may have read in the press recently about landfill ISP McColo being de-peered. Spam is just part of this story, though probably the most visual and media friendly, please don’t see this ongoing situation as mostly spam related. Spam is simply the most visible tentacle of this octopus. Our esteemed blogmaster Ed has been Read more…
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Look what we ran across in our spam traps recently: $50 for a survey! It’s our unlucky day… [Click for full size] As you can see from the partially obscured email address it is clearly NOT from JP Morgan Chase!! I hope this variation on the theme is suspicious enough to set off most peoples Read more…
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