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Fake F.B.I site hosting malicious code.
08.30.2006 - 8:59 AM
We recently discovered a website called "fbialert.com". The site has no content on the main page however it is hosting malicious code that was installed with the Web Attacker toolkit on other pages off the root domai...
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Brazilian VX'ers using Google Pages.
08.29.2006 - 2:18 PM
Over the last couple days we have seen increased use of storing malicious code on the Google website hosting service "Google Pages". All of the sites in question are hosting code which is designed to gather infor...
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Survey Says........First National Phish.
08.28.2006 - 7:39 AM
This morning we received some phishing emails in our mail honeypots which are using an online survey for First National Bank of Greencastle. The email promises $100 to take an easy 5 step questionnaire and, ironically enough, claims that no third party will receive this information. Upon accessing the site the user is requested to enter in their PIN and logon details, which is submitted to a fraudul...
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08.24.2006 - 11:13 AM
We are currently seeing new email that are posing as the United States FBI. The emails are written in HTML, are spoofed, and request that users send information to the "FBI Nigeria" Branch in order to get more information on what to do. The mailto address appears as: contactfbi|AT|fbi.gov but is actually an email on one of the popular email hosting companies. Needless to say, don't email these people.
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08.09.2006 - 3:36 PM
Yesterday Microsoft released several patches for Windows. Some of them fix vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to run m...
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August 2006
| 08.30.2006 | Fake F.B.I site hosting malicious code. » |
| 08.29.2006 | Brazilian VX'ers using Google Pages. » |
| 08.28.2006 | Survey Says........First National Phish. » |
| 08.24.2006 | FBI 419 Nigeria Fraud » |
| 08.09.2006 | Loads of patches. » |
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