Today, Ars Technica posted an article looking back 25 years ago to when the Nintendo Game Boy was first released. I…
Month: April 2014
World Cup 2014 Cash Prize & Tickets Email is a 419 Scam
From the spam traps: a World Cup 2014 419 missive, with a wonderfully enlightening subject line: “gkxzhlfgjs”. It reads: Dear Email…
A Week in Security (April 13 – 19)
Today, we look back and review last week’s posts here on Malwarebytes Unpacked and other noteworthy news: Top security news: Stay…
Phishers Bypass Steam Guard Protection
I was digging through some recent Steam related phish pages, and came across something I haven’t seen before: a new way…
Fake CNN Twitter sent users to diet spam and installs
It looks like someone took a compromised Twitter feed and turned it into a fake CNN account, which was peddling weight…
Another Game Company Encourages a Bad Email Habit
In response to AWS’s announcement that several of their services were found vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug, GearBox Software, the makers…
Phishers Lure WoW Players with an Irresistible Offer
World of Warcraft, or WoW, is one of the most recognized MMORPG games in its industry, and it has been going strong…
Netflix-themed tech support scam comes back with more copycats
A few weeks ago we blogged about this Netflix phishing scam combined with fake tech support that was extorting private information…
Apple ID Phish Goes Horribly Wrong
Here’s a really weird Apple phish, which seems to want to limit the amount of people who actually fall for it…
“Invitation to the Great Illuminati” Spam Mail
For a moment, I thought I’d woken up in a Dan Brown novel, but it turns out that spam can be…