Collaborate Disseminate
For the last two weeks we have been receiving a form of spam through our website contact form that I haven’t seen before.
It looks like this:
Name: iYvNgmpTLwxqaCj
Company: lqidQuVNMhIJsz
E-Mail: peter.pan@example.com
… Continue reading Why do we receive contact form spam with random characters?
A malicious spam campaign that informs victims it contains a “critical Windows update” instead leads to the installation of Cyborg ransomware, researchers have found. Further, they were able to access its builder, which can be used to creat… Continue reading ‘Windows Update’ Installs Cyborg Ransomware
The text-generating AI has only been released in neutered forms until now, for fear it would be used to mass-produce fake news and spam. Continue reading AI wordsmith too dangerous to be released… has been released
An email scam from earlier this year has resurfaced on Facebook – don’t fall for it! Continue reading Facebook scam steals famous faces and BBC branding
For the better part of the past decade, online tech support scams have been on the rise as hackers find new ways to trick consumers into providing remote access to their computers in order to steal information. This tried-and-true phishing scam today r… Continue reading Security First: The Double-Edged Sword of Remote Collaboration
I’ve recently received 2 spam SMS messages, claiming to be from 2 different organizations, but (obviously) not sent by them.
However, all of the contact details in the SMS match the real details of the organizations in quest… Continue reading What are spammers trying to acheive who only provide the correct contact information in their spam? [on hold]
WE still see loads of AgentTesla keylogger/ Info-stealer malware campaigns hitting the UK most days. Today is no exception with quite a few so far. I don’t always post them here, unless there is something slightly different or unusual about eithe… Continue reading Another Agenttesla campaign using a compromised Iraq Government site
Footwear retailer Toms has had its email newsletter compromised by someone who calls himself “a nice man”.
And he has strong opinions on the behaviour of other hackers…
Continue reading Toms Shoes newsletter “hacked by a nice man”
Someone I know (call them Darren Smith) recently received a rather odd email. It was sent to their personal email address, emailaddresswithnonameinit@emailprovider.com. The “From” field had “Darren Smith” as the name in it, b… Continue reading Bizarre email sent from spam email address with contact details of someone I know and a friend of their’s in it [on hold]
Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams. Continue reading Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted