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GFI Labs Email Roundup for the Week
Below are our noteworthy email threats for the week of December three to seven: Phishers Target Wells Fargo Clients. Emails from banks claiming that they are unable to verify their client details (“Regarding what? Didn’t say, of course.”) and then …
Fake PayPal Emails: Windows 8 and Vintage Photo Collections
If you want to panic over a mysterious transaction on Ebay to the tune of $564.48 for a “Microsoft Windows 8 Pro Anytime Upgrade”, then this is probably the email you’ve been waiting for. It reads: You have made an …
GFI Labs Email Roundup for the Week
Good Monday morning, dear Reader! Without further ado, here is the roundup of email threats for November 12 to 16. “Congratulations! You and {random name} are now connected!” click to enlarge This is a spam that purports to have originated …
GFI Labs Email Roundup for the Week
We’re starting off this roundup with a quick recap of what has transpired this week. First off, the US Elections last November 6: As expected, election-related threats have continued to make rounds that day. We won’t be surprised if we …
The Friday Scam, Spam and Malware Roundup
A little bit of a round-up as the week rumbles to a close (assuming you don’t include Saturday and Sunday, which might cause some confusion in your personal life so it isn’t really advisable): 1) An email is currently pinging …
Bogus Windows License Spam is in the Wild
For everyone’s information: Below is a screenshot of a new spam run in the wild, and the sender (whoever he, she, or it is) presents to recipients a very suspicious but very free license for Microsoft Windows that they can download. …
This Spam Gives Recipients a Second Chance
This latest find from our researchers in the AV Labs is filed under the “We Found Another Facebook Spam” pile. Let it be a warning to you, dear Reader, about this mail that purports to originate from Facebook and bears …
ADP Spam Campaigns are in the Wild
These past few days, our researchers in the AV Labs have been seeing a slew of spam campaigns purporting to have originated from the Automatic Data Processing, Inc., or ADP, a solutions provider to businesses with concerns involving outsourcing and …
Skype Voicemail Spam leads to Blackhole / Zeus Attacks
You’ve probably seen the infection plaguing users of Skype that we wrote about on Friday (and updated on Monday with details of Ransomware and click fraud), but there are other things out there wanting a slice of the Skype Userbase …
Skype Users Targeted with Ransomware and Click Fraud
The infection that’s still spreading across users of Skype has taken an interesting twist: ransomware and click fraud. Skype users tempted to follow the latest set of infection links will end up with a zipfile on their PC. Here’s an …










