ESET Threat Blog

Archive for the 'Fake update' Category

  •  
by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
October 17, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Larry Seltzer and David Phillips have kindly sent me the full text of the fake Adobe update messages I previously mentioned here and here. Here it is, without some of the extraneous and in some cases dangerous detail.
From: Adobe Support <newsletter@[fake domain>
Reply-To: Adobe Support <address as described in modified form in previous blog>
Date: Sun, 17 … Read More…

Comments
1

?>
by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
October 17, 2010 at 10:04 am

My good friend David Phillips, AV guru at the Open University, called my attention to this. I originally posted it at Chainmailcheck, but I thought it would probably be of interest to readers here, too.
An email headed “ADOBE PDF READER SOFTWARE UPGRADE NOTIFICATION” has been spammed out recently: of course, it’s a fake, linking to … Read More…

Comments
0

?>
Share |
Subscribe by Email
To receive new posts automatically through email, enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Blog Search
Archives

Switch to our mobile site