Not too long ago I received 3 phone calls, with a strong Indian accent and broken english, claiming to be a computer support firm that has noticed virus activities on my Windows computer. First time I told them I don't have any Windows machines. They then hung up. The second time, I asked them what IP they saw this from. They didn't know. Then they hung up. The third time, I told them I had 15 machines, and asked which one. They hung up again. The calls came from different Los Angeles area codes, but had to be VoIP. On 06/11/12 13:51, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
I have a spam pit email address which I monitor for trends to have a little bit of jump on the possible things users might touch at work. I started seeing the amazon, ebay and paypal ones a few weeks back. The other one I have started to see a lot of is the "Free or cheaper home phone service through magic jack" ones. Again as expected they link to some .ru domain and look just like the normal sign up page. Also my handy dandy virtual machine was instantly owned with malware just by loading the page. The VM runs Windows 7 as a non administrative user, UAC cranked up and IE9. Something like 10 installed apps showed up including "Adobe Flash Player Latest."
The other cool one I have been seeing is along the lines of "How to better utilize your office phone system" or "New Business Phone systems" with supposed links to "popular new phone system trends". This one is rather crafty as it has an embedded image which is a nice weblink to an infected jpg. So you click show picture in outlook, or in your browser and you get another installed piece of nastyware.
-- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People