AOL’s venerable instant messaging network, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), silently intercepts URLs in private chats and retrieves the content at the sent address without user consent. AOL appears to be retrieving any and all URLs sent during chats indiscriminately, at the network level. Presumably AOL is indexing the users included in the chat, the URL, and . . . → Read More: AOL Instant Messenger silently sniffing, retrieving URLs sent in chats
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Highlighting the sophistication of JavaScript obfuscation in spam emailEarlier today we noticed this rather unusual attack email in one of our catch-all email honeypots after making it through Gmail’s infamously strong “award winning spam and virus filtering”. For anyone wondering, this is the same honeypot from the last story, which continues to receive about 600,000 spam emails a month. This one stood out from a field of 300 other mails that made it to the inbox:
We had our own reasons to “beleive” otherwise. Attached was an HTML file appropriately named “open.html”. Opening it in notepad revealed obfuscated JavaScript: Google suggest: Norton is Norton is a virus? Not exactly, but they’re on to something. Viruses generally are installed without the user’s consent (e.g. on a new PC), degrade system performance (check), interfere with legitimate programs (e.g. blocking Firefox by default or by accident), take proactive steps to prevent removal (ever try uninstalling it?) and generally . . . → Read More: Google Suggest gets it right for once… Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free web-based (webmail), POP3 and IMAP e-mail service provided by Google. Gmail is available to individuals with Google accounts, who receive “their.username@gmail.com”, but can also be configured to handle mails for an organization that already has their own domain name. Google claims that Gmail includes “award-winning spam and virus filtering”. Brad Taylor, “spam tsar” at Google, stated:
Brad Taylor can also be seen in this cheeky ephemeral film explaining how the Gmail spam filter works. Welcome. You weren’t scared away by the URL? You must be bold, prepared, stupid, or any combination thereof. Here you can learn about and discuss strategies and techniques for protecting privacy in a world increasingly demanding transparent . . . → Read More: Welcome to ican.stealyour.info |
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