Dragonrider Computing

Well, this was a sneaky one!

Received this email, apparently from Administrator {AT} dragonrider.co.uk (my own domain) asking me to click on a non-existing link, on my own site, to download from a fileserver directory New_Banking_Details which is an invalid link anyway.

Very well hidden in the link was the actual infected web site link which was ezonlinedining.com/securestorage/##filename##.html

Absolute Spoof and a highly dangerous link to a very malicious web site and files. Delete any...

Latest infected eMail to arrive today is alledgedly from the Halifax (UK Bank) but is in fact sent via a UK Gym's website/genuine email address.

With a subject of Your Halifax online banking needs updating alledgedly sent from, and to info {AT} concept..........uk.com with your email hidden in the latter, The name of the sender is Halifax which is spoofed of course.

The spelling mistakes included in the body of the email are quite a giveaway that this is a fake, not to mention there is no...

Yet another infected email today, this time with a spoofed or false sender, alledgedly from dartford-crossing-charge.service.g*v.uk which is actually sent from asianet.co.th so it's actually sent from some spammers/hackers based in Thailand. An infected file is attached, this time an Excel file.

Further details about this hack can be safely found on the myonlinesecurity website. As always, treat any unrecognised emails with attachments with extreme caution and delete then and never, ever view...

I've had a couple of quite strange emails recently.

There's been a number from someone at webwindows.co.uk offering me banner space on a daily national newspaper. Can only assume these are from someone who has added me without permission to their business spam mailing list.

Then an attempt to con me into opening an infected file in Dropbox. I did not recognise the sender nor was there any reason for me to expect to recieve UPDATE_VACATIONS_SCHEDULE_09_2015.pdf. I also (eventually) noticed it...

Premium Charging MI Package for Merchant 17143013 pretending to come from [email protected] with a malicious word doc  attachment  is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various  Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer.

Further details can be found on the My Online Security...

RE: Voice message from 077######90 pretending to come from tel: 077######90 <non-mail-user {AT} voiplicity.co.uk>;with  a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various  Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer.

Further details of this infected WAV attachment can...

Latest fake infected eMail comes with a subject of Invoice: with a random set of characters and in my case the content was "Hi,Please find attached a recharge invoice for your broadband. Many Thanks.Random Name" All one line and no punctuation as shown.

It's yet another infection that is tryingto get you to open the Doc attachment which according to MXLab.eu is a 49kB attached file is named veizaioj_87B9A16BB5.doc (characters will vary) is a malicious Word file with embedded macro that will...

Second of two infected email warnings recieved today.

This one basically warns you to that payment is overdue.

Financial department report that You failed to file statements copies of month are attached below.
Please be noticed that from Thursday fine amounts are going to be imposed.
Please consider this e-mail as rather crucial so do not distribute to call our colleagues.
Sarah Lewis

The appalling grammar is a bit of a giveaway. The attached files, if you were to download them would run a file...

First of two infected email warnings recieved today.

This one basically asks you to resubmit an invoice for payment, or should that be infoice?

Kindly advise You that fee schedules received yesterday include two defects in amounts.
Please mail corrected infoices according to the enclosed files.
Our company will pay new invoices in four days.
Rebecca Smith

The attached files, if you were to download them would run a file that would at the least infect your computer, at worst, would send your...

The dreaded, and dreadful, Nigerian 419 Scams are still dropping into our inboxes from time to time. I don't know if the scammers think our attention span is so poor we'll forget about them if they stop sending them for a while or not?

These scams attempt to con the reader into sending their bank details off to total strangers who pretend to offer you the chance to "help them out" by transferring funds from some bank account wherever it may be, into yours to basically launder it, then transfer...