I have to admit, I’m not 100 percent sure who Elton Castee is. “Who’s that?” you ask? Digging around revealed that…
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Internet Shortcut used in Necurs malspam campaign
The Necurs botnet continues to be one of the most prolific malicious spam distributors, with regular waves of carefully-crafted attachments that…
Facebook spammers making things worse
Facebook’s having a bad couple of weeks. Between Congressional testimony and new information coming forward about Cambridge Analytica’s use of user…
“Celebrating Stephen Hawking” with a 419 scam
The recently departed Stephen Hawking is apparently back from the dead, now a target for scammers wanting to extract some quick…
Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move
Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies…
“Who visits your Twitter profile” spam app brings week of chaos
Twitter spam has been around forever, and rogue apps asking for installs in return for a cool feature (to be more…
Text messages and the Bitcoin Code: follow the money trail
I was a bit surprised to receive lots of messages similar to the one below this past week: I mean, we’ve…
A week in security (September 4 – September 10)
Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese…
Nigerian scams without the Nigerians
Users in English speaking countries are quite familiar with the Nigerian scam: an important guy in Nigeria needs your help getting…
419 spam: 10 million US dollars, courtesy of “Rev. Goodluck Ebola”
I’m not saying an email claiming to be from the “Central Bank of Nigeria” with a contact handler named “Rev. Goodluck…