Lately, there is an increase in the number of facebook scams. Below we present a few of them, so that you can avoid any issues.  Some of these scams can lead to various malware for both Windows and Linux/Mac operating systems so we recommend that you pay extra attention to similar messages that may appear in the future on [...]

A malicious advertisement has been found inside the game Farm Town on Facebook. The 9.6 million players are being warned about fake security warnings popping up that are designed to mislead people into paying for antivirus protection they don’t need. Sandi Hardmeier who studies malicious advertisements said the users were redirected from Facebook through several domains and ended up on [...]

Oficla/Sasfis malware is pretty common these days in  amazon shopping spam emails. The idea is quite old and simple: you will receive an e-mail with an attachment. The attachment is a zip file and once you extract and run the executable file you become infected. Below we’ll show you some of the details of this attack: You will receive a [...]

A new “trend” on facebook – the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card. You are supposed to go to a Fan page where you great this great offer : If you click through and are one of the first 20,000 people to become Best Buy fans, you’ll get a $1,000 gift card to spend on electronics. In the last few months Facebook [...]

Recently there is a lot of spam claiming to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that have as attachment an executable file, tax-statement.exe and with the following subject: Subject: Underreported Income Notice. Be aware, do not open/run the executable file because it’s actually a malicious file. IRS doesn’t send any kind of notifications via e-mail. This is just another [...]

Facebook Phising Email Example ( scam ) Phising Email Headers: Return-path: Envelope-to: XXXX@XX.COM Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from cpc1-wiga11-2-0-cust5.pres.cable.virginmedia.com ([77.96.128.6]) by XXXX with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NrXYx-0008Lb-Hb for XXXX@XX.COM ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from 77.96.128.6 by mx0.name.com; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 [...]

PayPall as one of the main targets of Phising Attacks has started to encourage users to use Anti Phising Software (Pay Pall is asking UK customers to download software from Iconix ) that should help them identify genuine e-mails . Iconix E-mail ID is a free software that is compatible withe the major e-mail services like Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Windows [...]

twitter_bird_follow_me Good news for all Twitter Users (the good ones ) . They have just launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users . Part of the New Anti Phising Tool is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in e-mail notifications and direct messages [...]

Money from Canadian Revenue Agency I think I’m lucky this year. I just received an e-mail from the Canada Revenue Agency telling me that I’m eligible for a tax refund of 386.00 Cool!!! .. but hey, I don’t live in Canada, what is going on ? The e-mail looks ok, as you can see below: Canada Revenue Agency Online Refund [...]

The anatomy of a greeting: Just opened the mail in the morning and I see in the junk folder an interesting message. It appeares that someone sent me an e-card, too bad is not my birthday. The mail looks like this: Carol has sent an e-card. Your Greeting card will be available at: hxxp://greetingcardcalendar.com/ID=?-XXXXX..X- This card was sent from 123greetings.com! [...]