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SANS Network Security: Las Vegas Sept 4-9.
Handler on Duty:
Xavier Mertens
Threat Level:
green
Date
Author
Title
SCAM SPAM
2013-12-24
Daniel Wesemann
Mr Jones wants you to appear in court!
2012-10-10
Kevin Shortt
Facebook Scam Spam
SCAM
2024-01-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2023-08-16/a>
Yee Ching Tok
A Gentle Reminder: The Evolving Nature of Digital Scams
2023-01-15/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Elon Musk Themed Crypto Scams Flooding YouTube Today
2022-11-19/a>
Guy Bruneau
McAfee Fake Antivirus Phishing Campaign is Back!
2022-03-29/a>
Johannes Ullrich
More Fake/Typosquatting Twitter Accounts Asking for Ukraine Crytocurrency Donations
2022-03-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
No Bitcoin - No Problem: Follow Up to Last Weeks Donation Scam
2022-03-04/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Scam E-Mail Impersonating Red Cross
2021-02-26/a>
Guy Bruneau
Pretending to be an Outlook Version Update
2020-12-17/a>
Daniel Wesemann
"Amazon" invoice that asks to call 1-866-335-0659 "to cancel" an order that you never made is (obviously) a #scam
2020-06-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Odd "Protest" Spam (Scam?) Targeting Atlanta Police Foundation
2020-02-25/a>
Jan Kopriva
Quick look at a couple of current online scam campaigns
2019-11-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
Fake Netflix Update Request by Text
2019-01-02/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
Gift Card Scams on the rise
2018-12-09/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Arrest of Huawei CFO Inspires Advance Fee Scam
2017-12-18/a>
Didier Stevens
Phish or scam? - Part 2
2017-12-17/a>
Didier Stevens
Phish or scam? - Part 1
2017-08-24/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Free Bitcoins? Why not?
2017-07-30/a>
Guy Bruneau
Text Banking Scams
2017-07-24/a>
Renato Marinho
Uber drivers new threat: the "passenger"
2017-06-15/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Uberscammers
2016-08-01/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Are you getting I-CANNED ?
2016-07-08/a>
Mark Hofman
Malware being distributed pretending to be from AU Fedcourts
2015-09-08/a>
Lenny Zeltser
A Close Look at PayPal Overpayment Scams That Target Craigslist Sellers
2015-04-28/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Scammy Nepal earthquake donation requests
2014-01-08/a>
Kevin Shortt
Intercepted Email Attempts to Steal Payments
2013-12-24/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Mr Jones wants you to appear in court!
2013-12-23/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Costco, BestBuy, Walmart really want to send you a package!
2013-12-21/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Adobe phishing underway
2013-10-02/a>
John Bambenek
Obamacare related domain registration spike, Government shutdown domain registration beginning
2013-07-13/a>
Lenny Zeltser
Decoy Personas for Safeguarding Online Identity Using Deception
2013-05-21/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Moore, Oklahoma tornado charitable organization scams, malware, and phishing
2013-04-17/a>
John Bambenek
UPDATEDx1: Boston-Related Malware Campaigns Have Begun - Now with Waco Plant Explosion Fun
2013-04-10/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Massive Google scam sent by email to Colombian domains
2012-12-06/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Fake tech support calls - revisited
2012-12-06/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Rich Quick Make Money!
2012-10-10/a>
Kevin Shortt
Facebook Scam Spam
2012-03-30/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Fake tech reps calling
2012-03-13/a>
Lenny Zeltser
Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, thanks
2011-12-12/a>
Daniel Wesemann
You won 100$ or a free iPad!
2011-11-16/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
GET BACK TO ME ASAP
2011-10-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
House for rent! Observing an Overpayment Scam
2011-05-23/a>
Mark Hofman
Microsoft Support Scam (again)
2011-05-10/a>
Swa Frantzen
Changing MO in scamming our users ?
2011-01-10/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages
2010-12-23/a>
Mark Hofman
Older AV Scam Active again.
2010-12-01/a>
Deborah Hale
A Gentle Reminder - It is that time of year again
2010-06-21/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
GoDaddy Scam/Phish/Spam
2010-05-23/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
e-mail scam announcing Fidel Castro's funeral ... and nasty malware to your computer.
2010-05-15/a>
Deborah Hale
Phony Phone Scam
2010-03-01/a>
Mark Hofman
AS/NZ "Online Offensive - Fight fraud online" week March 1-7
2009-10-19/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Scam Email
2009-09-22/a>
Jason Lam
ESTA scam
2008-11-29/a>
Pedro Bueno
Possible Mumbai Scams?
2008-06-13/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Floods: More of the same (2)
2008-05-26/a>
Marcus Sachs
Predictable Response
2008-05-19/a>
Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Text message and telephone aid scams
2008-05-17/a>
Jim Clausing
Disaster donation scams continue
SPAM
2024-05-27/a>
Jan Kopriva
Files with TXZ extension used as malspam attachments
2024-02-05/a>
Jesse La Grew
Public Information and Email Spam
2024-01-03/a>
Jan Kopriva
Interesting large and small malspam attachments from 2023
2023-11-08/a>
Xavier Mertens
Example of Phishing Campaign Project File
2023-10-29/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spam or Phishing? Looking for Credentials & Passwords
2023-06-29/a>
Brad Duncan
GuLoader- or DBatLoader/ModiLoader-style infection for Remcos RAT
2023-05-30/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes ModiLoader (DBatLoader) infection for Remcos RAT
2023-04-12/a>
Brad Duncan
Recent IcedID (Bokbot) activity
2023-01-19/a>
Jan Kopriva
SPF and DMARC use on 100k most popular domains
2023-01-05/a>
Brad Duncan
More Brazil malspam pushing Astaroth (Guildma) in January 2023
2022-12-02/a>
Brad Duncan
obama224 distribution Qakbot tries .vhd (virtual hard disk) images
2022-11-19/a>
Guy Bruneau
McAfee Fake Antivirus Phishing Campaign is Back!
2022-10-15/a>
Guy Bruneau
Malware - Covid Vaccination Supplier Declaration
2022-08-19/a>
Brad Duncan
Brazil malspam pushes Astaroth (Guildma) malware
2022-07-07/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet infection with Cobalt Strike
2022-06-17/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes Matanbuchus malware, leads to Cobalt Strike
2022-04-06/a>
Brad Duncan
Windows MetaStealer Malware
2022-03-16/a>
Brad Duncan
Qakbot infection with Cobalt Strike and VNC activity
2022-02-09/a>
Brad Duncan
Example of Cobalt Strike from Emotet infection
2022-01-25/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet Stops Using 0.0.0.0 in Spambot Traffic
2021-12-31/a>
Jan Kopriva
Do you want your Agent Tesla in the 300 MB or 8 kB package?
2021-12-22/a>
Brad Duncan
December 2021 Forensic Contest: Answers and Analysis
2021-12-20/a>
Jan Kopriva
PowerPoint attachments, Agent Tesla and code reuse in malware
2021-11-16/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet Returns
2021-10-22/a>
Brad Duncan
October 2021 Contest: Forensic Challenge
2021-09-17/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malicious Calendar Subscriptions Are Back?
2021-09-02/a>
Xavier Mertens
Attackers Will Always Abuse Major Events in our Lifes
2021-08-13/a>
Brad Duncan
Example of Danabot distributed through malspam
2021-07-26/a>
Didier Stevens
Failed Malspam: Recovering The Password
2021-07-14/a>
Jan Kopriva
One way to fail at malspam - give recipients the wrong password for an encrypted attachment
2021-05-29/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spear-phishing Email Targeting Outlook Mail Clients
2021-04-16/a>
Rick Wanner
Querying Spamhaus for IP reputation
2021-04-06/a>
Jan Kopriva
Malspam with Lokibot vs. Outlook and RFCs
2021-03-05/a>
Xavier Mertens
Spam Farm Spotted in the Wild
2021-02-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes GuLoader for Remcos RAT
2021-02-17/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushing Trickbot gtag rob13
2021-01-20/a>
Brad Duncan
Qakbot activity resumes after holiday break
2021-01-13/a>
Brad Duncan
Hancitor activity resumes after a hoilday break
2020-12-09/a>
Brad Duncan
Recent Qakbot (Qbot) activity
2020-10-31/a>
Didier Stevens
More File Selection Gaffes
2020-10-14/a>
Brad Duncan
More TA551 (Shathak) Word docs push IcedID (Bokbot)
2020-08-07/a>
Brad Duncan
TA551 (Shathak) Word docs push IcedID (Bokbot)
2020-07-10/a>
Brad Duncan
Excel spreasheet macro kicks off Formbook infection
2020-06-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Odd "Protest" Spam (Scam?) Targeting Atlanta Police Foundation
2020-06-10/a>
Brad Duncan
Job application-themed malspam pushes ZLoader
2020-05-13/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam with links to zip archives pushes Dridex malware
2020-04-08/a>
Brad Duncan
German malspam pushes ZLoader malware
2020-04-01/a>
Brad Duncan
Qakbot malspam sent from an infected Windows host
2020-03-25/a>
Brad Duncan
Recent Dridex activity
2020-03-05/a>
Xavier Mertens
Will You Put Your Password in a Survey?
2020-02-12/a>
Brad Duncan
Malpsam pushes Ursnif through Italian language Word docs
2020-02-03/a>
Jan Kopriva
Analysis of a triple-encrypted AZORult downloader
2020-01-22/a>
Brad Duncan
German language malspam pushes Ursnif
2020-01-16/a>
Jan Kopriva
Picks of 2019 malware - the large, the small and the one full of null bytes
2019-12-18/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet infection with spambot activity
2019-12-11/a>
Brad Duncan
German language malspam pushes yet another wave of Trickbot
2019-12-03/a>
Brad Duncan
Ursnif infection with Dridex
2019-11-20/a>
Brad Duncan
Hancitor infection with Pony, Evil Pony, Ursnif, and Cobalt Strike
2019-11-13/a>
Brad Duncan
An example of malspam pushing Lokibot malware, November 2019
2019-11-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
Fake Netflix Update Request by Text
2019-11-06/a>
Brad Duncan
More malspam pushing Formbook
2019-10-02/a>
Brad Duncan
A recent example of Emotet malspam
2019-10-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Quick Look at Some Current Comment Spam
2019-09-25/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushing Quasar RAT
2019-09-18/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet malspam is back
2019-06-18/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam with password-protected Word docs pushing Dridex
2019-04-07/a>
Guy Bruneau
Fake Office 365 Payment Information Update
2019-03-21/a>
Xavier Mertens
New Wave of Extortion Emails: Central Intelligence Agency Case
2019-03-13/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes Emotet with Qakbot as the follow-up malware
2019-03-06/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam with password-protected word docs still pushing IcedID (Bokbot) with Trickbot
2019-02-20/a>
Brad Duncan
More Russian language malspam pushing Shade (Troldesh) ransomware
2019-02-06/a>
Brad Duncan
Hancitor malspam and infection traffic from Tuesday 2019-02-05
2019-01-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam with Word docs uses macro to run Powershell script and steal system data
2019-01-16/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet infections and follow-up malware
2019-01-10/a>
Brad Duncan
Heartbreaking Emails: "Love You" Malspam
2018-12-18/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam links to password-protected Word docs that push IcedID (Bokbot)
2018-12-05/a>
Brad Duncan
Campaign evolution: Hancitor changes its Word macros
2018-12-04/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushing Lokibot malware
2018-11-29/a>
Brad Duncan
Russian language malspam pushing Shade (Troldesh) ransomware
2018-11-15/a>
Brad Duncan
Emotet infection with IcedID banking Trojan
2018-11-14/a>
Brad Duncan
Day in the life of a researcher: Finding a wave of Trickbot malspam
2018-10-31/a>
Brad Duncan
More malspam using password-protected Word docs
2018-10-30/a>
Brad Duncan
Campaign evolution: Hancitor malspam starts pushing Ursnif this week
2018-10-05/a>
Jim Clausing
A strange spam
2018-09-26/a>
Brad Duncan
One Emotet infection leads to three follow-up malware infections
2018-08-15/a>
Brad Duncan
More malspam pushing password-protected Word docs for AZORult and Hermes Ransomware
2018-08-02/a>
Brad Duncan
DHL-themed malspam reveals embedded malware in animated gif
2018-07-27/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam with password-protected Word docs pushes Hermes ransomware
2018-07-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Recent Emotet activity
2018-06-18/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malicious JavaScript Targeting Mobile Browsers
2018-06-13/a>
Xavier Mertens
A Bunch of Compromized Wordpress Sites
2018-03-02/a>
Xavier Mertens
Common Patterns Used in Phishing Campaigns Files
2018-02-01/a>
Xavier Mertens
Adaptive Phishing Kit
2017-12-18/a>
Didier Stevens
Phish or scam? - Part 2
2017-12-17/a>
Didier Stevens
Phish or scam? - Part 1
2017-11-30/a>
Brad Duncan
More Malspam pushing Emotet malware
2017-10-19/a>
Brad Duncan
HSBC-themed malspam uses ISO attachments to push Loki Bot malware
2017-10-17/a>
Brad Duncan
Hancitor malspam uses DDE attack
2017-09-18/a>
Xavier Mertens
Getting some intelligence from malspam
2017-09-01/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushing Locky ransomware tries HoeflerText notifications for Chrome and FireFox
2017-08-14/a>
Didier Stevens
Sometimes it's just SPAM
2017-07-26/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushing Emotet malware
2017-07-14/a>
Brad Duncan
NemucodAES and the malspam that distributes it
2017-06-28/a>
Brad Duncan
Catching up with Blank Slate: a malspam campaign still going strong
2017-05-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Jaff ransomware gets a makeover
2017-04-11/a>
Brad Duncan
Dridex malspam seen on Monday 2017-04-10
2017-03-28/a>
Xavier Mertens
Logical & Physical Security Correlation
2017-02-10/a>
Brad Duncan
Hancitor/Pony malspam
2016-10-25/a>
Xavier Mertens
Another Day, Another Spam...
2016-10-19/a>
Xavier Mertens
Spam Delivered via .ICS Files
2016-06-20/a>
Xavier Mertens
Ongoing Spam Campaign Related to Swift
2016-05-12/a>
Xavier Mertens
Another Day, Another Wave of Phishing Emails
2015-12-06/a>
Mark Hofman
Malware SPAM a new run has started.
2015-09-01/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Gift card from Marriott?
2015-06-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
SMTP Brute Forcing
2015-04-09/a>
Brad Duncan
An example of the malicious emails sometimes sent to the ISC handler addresses
2015-03-23/a>
Rick Wanner
Interesting Home Depot Spam
2015-01-31/a>
Guy Bruneau
Beware of Phishing and Spam Super Bowl Fans!
2014-09-17/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Your online background check is now public!
2014-08-05/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Legal Threat Spam: Sometimes it Gets Personal
2014-06-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) 2014
2014-06-08/a>
Guy Bruneau
efax Spam Containing Malware
2014-04-05/a>
Jim Clausing
Those strange e-mails with URLs in them can lead to Android malware
2014-03-22/a>
Guy Bruneau
How the Compromise of a User Account Lead to a Spam Incident
2014-02-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
UPS Malware Spam Using Fake SPF Headers
2014-01-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
How to send mass e-mail the right way
2013-12-24/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Mr Jones wants you to appear in court!
2013-10-17/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
New spamming technique - onmicrosoft.com
2013-09-30/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Twitter DM spam/malware
2013-09-03/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Is "Reputation Backscatter" a Thing?
2013-07-18/a>
Chris Mohan
Blog Spam - annoying junk or a source of intelligence?
2013-03-28/a>
John Bambenek
Where Were You During the Great DDoS Cybergeddon of 2013?
2013-03-26/a>
Daniel Wesemann
How your Webhosting Account is Getting Abused
2013-03-18/a>
Kevin Shortt
Spamhaus DDOS
2013-02-08/a>
Kevin Shortt
Is it Spam or Is it Malware?
2012-12-06/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Rich Quick Make Money!
2012-10-10/a>
Kevin Shortt
Facebook Scam Spam
2012-09-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
Phishing/Spam Pretending to be from BBB
2012-08-22/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Phishing/spam via SMS
2012-03-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Virus Bulletin Spam Filter Test
2012-02-17/a>
Mark Hofman
Intersting Facebook SPAM
2011-11-28/a>
Rob VandenBrink
It's Cyber Monday - Click Here!
2011-11-16/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
GET BACK TO ME ASAP
2011-10-20/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Evil Printers Sending Mail
2011-08-31/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Phishing e-mail to custom e-mail addresses
2011-06-30/a>
Guy Bruneau
Symantec Report - Spam Surge against Social Networks
2011-06-27/a>
Kevin Shortt
Phishy Spam
2011-06-08/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Spam from compromised Hotmail accounts
2011-03-29/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Requesting deletion of "free" email and chat accounts
2011-01-11/a>
Kevin Shortt
Spam Cannons on Holiday
2010-12-03/a>
Mark Hofman
T'is the season to be SPAMMY, trallalalaa la la la laaa
2010-11-22/a>
Lenny Zeltser
Adobe Acrobat Spam Going Strong - More to Come?
2010-09-18/a>
Rick Wanner
I'm fine, thanks!
2010-08-29/a>
Swa Frantzen
Abandoned free email accounts
2010-07-15/a>
Deborah Hale
Be on the Alert
2010-07-03/a>
Deborah Hale
Delivery Status Failure Notice That Packed A Wallop
2010-06-21/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
GoDaddy Scam/Phish/Spam
2010-06-10/a>
Deborah Hale
Another Morning of Fun
2010-06-02/a>
Rob VandenBrink
SPAM pretending to be from Habitat for Humanity
2010-04-22/a>
Deborah Hale
Don't Be Fooled by Twitter Spam in Your Inbox
2010-04-13/a>
Johannes Ullrich
More Legal Threat Malware E-Mail
2010-03-17/a>
Deborah Hale
Spam was killing us! Here is what we did to help!
2010-03-15/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Spamassassin Milter Plugin Remote Root Attack
2010-02-03/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Anatomy of a Form Spam Campaign (in progress against isc.sans.org right now) https://blogs.sans.org/appsecstreetfighter/
2009-12-02/a>
Rob VandenBrink
SPAM and Malware taking advantage of H1N1 concerns
2009-11-03/a>
Andre Ludwig
SURBL now posting abuse statistics for TLD's
2009-10-12/a>
Mark Hofman
Some interesting SSL SPAM
2009-10-08/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 8 - Port 25 - SMTP
2009-10-07/a>
Joel Esler
Spam rate increase is seen
2009-09-10/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Healthcare Spam
2009-07-28/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Twitter spam/phish
2009-06-25/a>
Mark Hofman
Michael J & Farrah F death SPAM
2009-06-20/a>
Scott Fendley
Situational Awareness: Spam Crisis and China
2009-04-06/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Abuse addresses
2009-01-25/a>
Rick Wanner
Twam?? Twammers?
2009-01-16/a>
G. N. White
...and all that SPAM - Evolution of Spam Bots in 2009
2008-09-09/a>
Swa Frantzen
The complaint that's an attack
2008-08-13/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
CNN switched to MSNBC
2008-08-10/a>
Stephen Hall
Fake IE 7 update spam doing the rounds
2008-08-06/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
When spammers use your own e-mails
2008-08-05/a>
Daniel Wesemann
The news update you never asked for
2008-05-02/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Hi, remember me?...
2008-04-22/a>
donald smith
Spam to your calendar via Google agenda?
2008-03-26/a>
Raul Siles
ORDB.org blocklisting all IP addresses
2006-10-08/a>
Swa Frantzen
Spam Backscatter
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