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Attack Targets LinkedIn Users With Fake Contact Requests
wiredmikey writes "On Monday morning, cybercriminals began sending massive volumes of spam email messages targeting LinkedIn users. Starting at approximately 10am GMT, users of the popular business-focused social networking site began receiving emails with a fake contact request containing a malicious link. According to Cisco Security Intelligence, these messages accounted for as much as 24% of all spam sent within a 15-minute interval today. If users click, they are taken to a web page that says 'PLEASE WAITING.... 4 SECONDS..' and then redirected to Google, appearing as if nothing has happened. During those four seconds, the site attempted to infect the victim's PC with the ZeuS Malware via a 'drive-by download' – something that requires little or no user interaction to infect a system."
NoScript FTW. Seriously.
" sending massive volumes of spam email messages targeting LinkedIn users."
To paraphrase Mark Twain:
www.eFax.com are spammers
Linkedin are just a bunch of spammers anyway.
I got an email from them, claiming that someone I knew wanted me to join. It was a spammer - the "custom message" that was included was a single link to a spam site in China.
The email had a "if this is spam..." report button, so I used it, and noted to linkedin that I didn't know the person, and it was *obviously* spam (the link was to a spam site.) Their automated system thanked me for reporting the abuse, and I thought that was the end of it.
Two weeks later, I receive a "helpful reminder" from Linkedin, telling me that I hadn't confirmed or rejected the invitation. Not only had they not taken any action, they helpfully included the spam link, and seemed blissfully unaware that I had reported this spammer's account two weeks prior.
Linkedin are just a bunch of scummy spammers. I blocked all email from their domain since.
LinkedIn spamming started before today, I know as we've got several from last week.
Today we started getting the netflix emails about 'lost in mail' disks for movies that haven't been requested and/or to users without netflix accounts.
Way to notice whats going on guys.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Or is another "Download gdggdsf.exe" and moronic users click on Run?
So far I've only see "drive by download" which is 100% meaningless. Would it kill them to tell us what exploit, if any is being used?
...but I don't think the have anything to do with my non-neglected linkedin account. Its just normal phishing.
What I did get yesterday was a telephone spam phishing attempt. They called told me they had detected malware from my system and tried to get me to load a remote administration tool from their web site. Take a look at the language on that site "Blue Screen To Death Error", etc. Its hilarious.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
I'm ready to execute all malware writers. Put them up against the wall and remove the problem forever. They contribute absolutely nothing of use to society.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Actually only some of the exploits in Acrobat Reader have been patched. According to the latest security bulletin from Adobe, reader 9.3.4 has critical vulnerabilities and they will release a patch the week of Oct. 4th. So unfortunately you can still get hit with certain Reader/PDF exploits by visiting a site.
Problem solved.
I reflect your pompous signature back upon you.
Changing one tilde to a dash would solve this problem for 90% or more of the phishing targets.
$ dig txt linkedin.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
linkedin.com. 21600 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:70.42.142.0/24 ip4:208.111.172.0/24 ip4:64.74.220.0/24 ip4:64.74.221.0/26 ip4:64.71.153.211 ip4:64.74.221.30 ip4:69.28.149.0/24 ip4:208.111.169.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.16/29 mx ~all"
include $sig;
1;