“After seeing this, you’re not going to drink Coke anymore”
Social engineering in progress: An interesting post of a friend pops up on your wall and you become curious, you click, you become a victim - and that’s how it works, the so called “likejacking”.
Beware of Facebook.com security phishing sites
There is no such thing as security software for the social network Facebook. Still, scamsters try to lure victims with phishing websites.
Microsoft’s instant messenger in the tricksters' focus
Recently, we discovered an increase in spam and phishing sites related to the MSN Messenger or rather the Windows Live Messenger. There is a new wave of spam with fake friend requests and fake sites with shady services to uncover possible disloyal messenger friends.
The prevalence of camouflaged pharmacy spam continues steadily
As reported, the activities of the Islandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull spit pharmacy spam into the world. Scammers continue to jump on the bandwagon of hot media topics to spread their unwanted bulk emails. G Data identified various subjects connected to recent public interests.
Volcano Eyjafjallajoekull spits spam mails
Recently, G Data receives spam mails with "volcano" subject lines. The topicality of the Icelandic volcano eruption brings cyber criminals to use the topic for their means - they send spam mails, which lead shady online pharmacy shops.
Wanna play? Stay away from fake Zynga Facebook poker sites!
Playing online browser games becomes more and more popular. Especially Facebook offers a wide range of different mini games, developed by the most popular “social-game company of the moment” (Time.com): Zynga. We discovered an increasing number of Zynga Poker related phishing sites during the last…
Touts try to sell your domain to you
It has been a long time since the last case of touts trying to sell G Data domains to our company, but now we found a new candidate in our sales department's email inbox.
Fake Firefox security warning leads to scareware
The Firefox browser is well known for its security features. Now a Trojan Horse program is taking advantage of that by displaying fake alert messages. Clicking the wrong button leads to a website, that asks the surfer to install fake anti-virus software. Be careful if you are routed to…
Karsten Hahn
Principal Malware Researcher
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
