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Commtouch labs has picked up a wave of phony Facebook friend request emails. Strangely, these all feature random Middle-Eastern/Asian names (not linked to actual Facebook accounts). Note that these requests arrive via email – not Facebook.
Following any of the links leads to a malware download reported to be a variant of zbot. Zbot contacts different download servers in order to deploy additional malware on infected systems.
Understanding “normal” behaviors in email exchanges are key to combating advanced phishing and BEC attacks by John Stevenson Detecting Business Email Compromise (BEC) In the final part of our series of blogs on Business Email Compromise (BEC), it’s time to look at how...
How Natural Language Programming help combat phishing and BEC attacks by John Stevenson Business Email Compromise (BEC) Business Email Compromise (BEC) covers a range of email attacks that typically share a common core attribute. There is no obvious executable...
Don’t Scan or be Scammed By Maharlito Aquino, Kervin Alintanahin and Dexter To In 1994, a type of the matrix barcode known as the Quick Response code, now widely known as QR code, was invented by Masahiro Hara from a Japanese company Denso Wave. The purpose of the...