McAfee Labs Messaging Security recently observed a new malicious spam campaign pushing password-stealing Trojans associated with the Zeus/Zbot family. This campaign leverages several notable social engineering techniques. For admins and netizens familiar with contemporary email-borne threats, a message purporting an undeliverable DHL, FedEx, or USPS package triggers an immediate red flag. Though still prevalent, those Read more…
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My friend Marlynn received an email from Facebook saying that her password had been reset this week. The cool thing was that after reading the email, she opened a new web browser to Facebook (maybe after reading my blog ), typed in her current username and password to test it and it still worked! Read more…
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Scammers send emails that appear to be from Facebook, telling recipients that their Facebook password has been reset and they need to click on an attachment to retrieve it.
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