Though Waledac has not been high profile news since April 2009, it was still
functional even in stealth mode. The gist of Waledac, is that it can copy perfectly
legitimate web sites, send out an email with a link to the spoofed (cloned) site, and once
you click on the link in an email you end up on [...]
On Tuesday Waledac was baaaaccckkk again anxiously Joe jobbing two adult foot fetish sites: barefootsies.com and ticklefootsies.com. ShadowServer theorizes that “Waledac is advertising/spamming/joe jobbing the same people again.”
Wikipedia describes Joe jobbing as “a spam attack using spoofed sender data and aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender and/or induce the recipients to take [...]
April 16 2009 by
Teksquisite in
Security |
According to ShadowServer, Waledac kicked off yet another campaign to convince users to install a program that will allow them to read other people’s SMS messages. With email spam subject lines such as “Are you interested in reading other people’s sms?” and “Just type the phone number and read sms,” there is bound to be [...]