Fake FTC e-mails contain virus attack
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Scammers are sending out virus-laden e-mails claiming to have information on complaints filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the FTC warned Monday.The e-mail appears to come from frauddep@ftc.gov -- a spoofed address -- and it includes a malicious attachment that downloads keylogging software, which is used to steal sensitive information such as passwords and account numbers.&quot;While the e-mail includes the FTC seal, it has grammatical errors, misspellings, and incorrect syntax,&quot; the FTC said in an alert , released Monday. &quot;Recipients should forward the e-mail to spam@uce.gov and then delete it.&quot; E-mail sent to this uce.gov address goes into the FTC&#39;s spam database, which is used by investigators.Online scammers often masquerade as government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service in the hopes of tricking unsuspecting victims into clicking on attachments or visiting malicious Web sites.
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Next time an e-card with a jolly message drops into your computer&#39;s inbox, think before you click it open - it could be a virus which will implant itself in your machine and spread before you even realise it.
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A newly reported security problem in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser allows attackers to create a fake Web site that looks exactly like a genuine site.
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By The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Mar. 8--A fake e-mail message purporting to have been sent by Heritage  Trust Federal Credit Union has been turning up in inboxes Thursday morning.
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Tzvetan Ceco Chaliavski's workday begins just like most people's, with a check of his e-mail. But his inbox often contains more than 400 warnings and samples of viruses, worms and all manner of malware.
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Online advertiser Member Source Media used misleading bulk e-mail to drive traffic to its Web site, FTC says.
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Seen in wild for first time, malware cleans one victim out of $8,600 Miscreants have unleashed a new strain of a sophisticated Trojan that targets eBay users by feeding them spoofed web pages containing fraudulent information about high-ticket purchases, The Register has learned. It has already contributed to an $8,600 loss by one eBay member.â¦
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New round of 'family member' greeting-card spam tricks recipients into visiting malicious Web sites.
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Is your computer part of a bot army, infiltrating systems and spreading spam?
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Junk e-mailers are using free Web pages to disguise spam sources, manipulate search engines.
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Most e-mail users are aware that opening an executable file (.exe) from an unknown source is a danger, but many don&#39;t know what an IM threat looks like.
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E-mail message falsely claims that tool detects, cleans up adult-related material on your PC.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.) - Phreaks, spoofers and spammers want to invade your home computer, and the tricks of their trade include airsnarfs, wabbits and fork bombs.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 14--That e-mail notice claiming to fight fraud is itself fraudulent.   The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued a special alert Wednesday concerning an e-mail asking consumers to download unknown software onto personal or business computers.
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A bogus e-mail message supposedly sent by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission contains spyware and targets corporate and banking executives as well as consumers, the FTC said Monday.
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A bug in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond
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Richard Thomas comments on a "funny little PHP 'virus'" that he's noticed coming to him via emails:   Got an email that claimed to be from my host, it used a generic return address and talked about security upgrades and such and how due to new policy to help keep a secure data center I was required to upload and run 1 of 2 files in a zip attachment, the first was a php file the other was an asp file.   Of course, it wasn't from the host, so he investigated a little further to find out exactly what was going on with the file. Basically, it was a modified nsTView file with some added emailing and password discovery code. The code was "hidden" though - through a base64_encode call on one side and then decoded it on the other to cause the server to execute the code. He even posts and example of what the base64ed code might look like.