Category: Spam

Old phish becomes new again

Paul

According to some reports, this phishing has started up again and is now changed a little web address and when you go to the site it looks like:

Twitter Phish spam

[ad#ad2-right]If you sign into this website with your twitter account information, it sends out a Direct message with these links in them rosalierebyb.blogspot.com redirects to http://twittyblog.access-logins.com/login and the only way you can fix this is to CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.

I’d also suggest getting a password manager so if you use just one password for all accounts you will easily be able to change them and make the passwords much harder to hack. You do not want your passwords stolen do yo? I suggest Roboform it works really well with password management.

New Twitter Phishing -jannawalitax.blogspot.com

Paul

I read Chris Prillo’s Blog about this and wanted to investigate this even more. When you go to this site it looks like:

http://twitter.access-logins.com/login/ --Phishing site

When you go here the web address is : http://twitter.access-logins.com/login/ and it looks like it was a redirect form the blogspot.com site.   so what I did an experiment and just took off /login/ on the address and this pops up:

Face book fake -- http://twitter.access-logins.com/
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This website looks to like a facebook website so now you have to ask where is this at: Hunan China.  After I did a whois look up it looks like China is at it again.  These are trying to get on to your account to either spam or use it to get people to install software.   So what are things you can do?  If you have a question about this always check it out.  That is why I like to check everything out with these types of phishing scams.   I don’t know why they want twitter accounts, I just know they are doing this now.   So if you get this message:

hey! check out this funny blog about you… jannawalitax . blogspot . com

Just ignore it and possibly blog the twitter account.  That is probably a bot or someone’s account been hacked and is no longer valid.   I’ll leave that up to you on how you handle that account.   This is to warn people about this account and warn people. Help Protect your password with Roboform, don’t just use one password for all accounts.  It also seems to be possible worm, if you think your infected check out my resource on remove the worm.  Here’s the link to that talks about this being a worm.

Twitter Spam bots are hot to trot: http://gentai.com/revenge1

Paul

Ok so I was curious why I all of the sudden got people joining my list. each one I look at just to see who these people are have only one twitter message saying this from two different accounts:

twitbot3

and this one also

twitbots2

and once you click that link it takes you to this website and see what they want you to do:

twitterbots

These people are trying to get you to click on there links and [ad#ad2-left-1]get you give them email accounts.  This has been socially engineered to look like it is real.  I gave them a 10 min email account to see what they sent me.  It was a link to there porn site.  Wanting me to give them my credit card or checking account information and to join there site.  I don’t think so, not this old dog.   Anyways if you get this spam from a user you might just want to block these people.  Some of these people have followers.  Hmm I don’t know about these people.  I guess they want you to send an email to other people to spam them also.  How nice of them to social engineer this scheme so you can make your friends and family mad at you and probably not even talk to you.   So that is why it is good not to auto-follow people when they subscribe to your twitter account.   Some people have that set.  Some people just don’t learn. I am sure some people will like this site for other reasons but please don’t spam people with this little site. Please don’t put people on that list.

Facebook : Beware Spam for breakfast. (Virus)

Paul

In today’s society, we’ve been to complacent with people with people clicking links for the social group. In one such article on Channel Web, a nice little blog, says this:

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The worm was discovered by IT security provider Kaspersky Lab, which said the threat, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, is targeting Facebook users by creating spam messages and sending them to the infected user’s friends via the site.

“Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by ‘friends’ on social networking sites,” said Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, in a statement. “So, the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high.”


[Via Channel Web]

This seems to be a problem people thinking that a link someone sends them is a real good link but actually is a link to a video site. According to this article the links people are sending are actually a fake video link, telling you have to download some update to flash player, by downloading this program. The user gets involved with the virus and the fun begins. So how can you prevent this from happening, two ways one is a very good group of software to make sure you have the latest and greatest video codecs. That too can be something they’ll say you need and if you’ve already installed this list of codecs then you know they’ll not telling the truth and you can quickly get away from the site laughing.

[ad#ad2-left]What’s this program name, it is call the K-lite Mega Codec pack. In this Pack you will be able to play almost everything without having to go download another program. This is done by people who want you to have all the latest codecs installed so you don’t have to go by a program you’ll only going to use once a month.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll no longer have to worry for the most part about codecs. There will be times when you might have to visit that site and update them but that will be far less.

The other thing you must remember is if it says you must update your player. That should be a sign that there is something. I’ll always go to the site and check for example Adobe. If it says I need to update my flash I’ll manually type it into my browser. This way you will know you have the latest updates, if you need to update the flash player by all means go to here and update.

If you got the virus I’d check out my Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware page and that should show you will you need to get rid of the Virus. This virus is very easy to get rid of, just download any one of the anti-virus software and install it. Don’t forget to update the virus database while your at it. That should fix the problem pretty fast. Remember the only way to prevent from getting the virus is YOU.