Strato.de (now belonging to 1&1) is one of the biggests hosters in Germany. Since a few weeks we see a lot of emails containing various texts that try to convince the user to login to his strato.de account and perform some actions. Strato published on their blog also a post about these fake emails: https://strato.de/blog/achtung-aktuell-wieder-phishing-mails-im-namen-von-strato-im-umlauf/ […]
I sometimes can’t stop to ask myself if the scammers are actually human beings with feelings of loss and tragedy and if they have the same concerns as the normal citizens. I guess they are not, because otherwise you can’t explain this: Hello friend, I intend to give out some portion of my wealth […]
As I mentioned before, there is a lot going on in the cyberspace related to the Corona virus. Unfortunately, many of the things circulating are scams or information that direct to malware. This is an email circulating currently in massive waves in various languages (here in German): Hallo Sorin Mustaca Falls Sie es noch […]
We’ve seen millions of emails with blackmailing texts containing some username/email address and a password harvested from some hacked website. This one would be just another one, except that the text is obfuscated 🙂 It looks interesting but it is tiresome to try to read it. And why the effort, in the end ? Below […]
German users are receiving a lot of such spams these days: It is about a package which allegedly it has its transport costs not paid. (2 €). The user is invited to visit a page where he can be pay this. Verfolgen Sie Ihr Paket: DE3428632-19 STATUS: BEARBEITUNG – VERTEILERZENTRUM BERLIN – Transportkosten VON 2,00 […]
If you have received an email with the subject “Yuor password – ”, don’t freak out immediately. Yes, the “yuor” is written wrong, but this is how the fraudsters wrote it, not the author of this article. The fraudsters have used a dump with the email addresses and passwords from some hacked website, where you […]
Sometimes, looking after spams is also fun, not just research work. This is what I found today: Dear Energy User, If you pay for electricity, you`ve been hit hard by high energy prices. And, if you`re like most people, you`re thinking there`s got to be a better way. A better way to heat your home […]
We have ta lot of phishing attempts in German against Strato.de: Subject: Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Sehr geehrter Kunde, Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Diese Art von Fehlern zeigt normalerweise an, dass die Kreditkarte abgelaufen ist oder Ihre Rechnungsadresse ist ungültig. Klicken Sie auf den folgenden Link, um Ihre Informationen zu aktualisieren: https://www.strato.de/apps/CustomerService#/skl […]
We are used to see ransomware encrypting files and requesting money (bitcoin) to decrypt them. I received now a new email on a corporate address, which is a black-e-mail … in digital form. I have to say, that the amount of thoughts expressed in the email is interesting. Somebody, with some basic knowledge and bad […]
Ever wondered what a “spear phishing” is ? Or a “targeted malware” ? See below: It is an email targeted to a member of an organization, which is made to look as legitimate as possible. The difference between normal phishing and malware emails and a targeted one is that the contents of the emails […]
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