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#phishing

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This text from a stranger... Oh, wow! Enforcement action will be taken! It is my final notice! I must pay my tolls, scofflaw that I am! The stranger has provided a handy link to use to stop enforcement action by paying what I owe now, before it's too late!

Except.. dudes and/or dudettes... I don't own a car.

It's time to do the fuck-off dance! 🕺 🖕 💃

So quaint. From a more civilised and gentler era. Nowadays one brute-force confiscates the US government for personal gain.

#scam #phishing #etc
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Attention

This message is coming from IMF Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) and from the current managing director/Chairwoman Ms. Kristalina Georgieva International Monetary Fund and parcel handling facility. We have an unpaid Fund with a tag bearing your email address, an illegible name and initials. Can you please kindly reconfirm to us:

1. Your Full Name
2. Home Address
3. Mobile Number
4. Occupation

So that we will know how you chose to get it over to you, then we will securely get it to you immediately.
EMAIL: ii5333944@gmail.com
Tele Phone: +1 330-791-5120
IMF Deputy Managing Director
Nigel Clarke

Regards
Mr John Richard

Interesting phishing attempt. They take your name and some address associated with it, and send you a message like this.

PS: You can’t win even if you reply, because saying “no thanks” will confirm that you live at the address they gave.

PPS: Nobody who knows me personally calls me “David”. This guy probably got my name from some stolen mailing list.

📱 ✉️ Quishing: il phishing che viaggia su QR code
Un attacco sempre più diffuso in 3 semplici mosse:
1. L’attaccante invia uno spam con un QR code camuffato.
2. L’utente lo scansiona con lo smartphone, dispositivo meno protetto dei PC aziendali.
3. Viene reindirizzato a una finta pagina dove inserisce inconsapevolmente dati sensibili.

🎯 Salva il post per averlo sempre a portata di mano!

I've been hacked last Monday. A scammer fooled my trust to make me install a malware on my Mac. Which did its malware job. I spent hours changing all my internet passwords and blocking my credit cards when I realized what had happened...
But then I counterattacked : I found the malware program, and analyzed it.
I ran it again inside a debugger (!) and after a long fight I found its embedded encrypted AppleScript script. So now I know what it stole and how it did it. (Quite bad but not as bad as I feared). I even know to which server it sent my data and the userID of the scammer.
How can I contribute to a better world by providing my analysis (the programs, the script, the servers, the process I used) to people who know what to do with it ? Not a company selling anti-malware but a FLOSS community.
Thanks