Outburst of HDFC and IDBI bank phishing emails
For past few days, I was getting fraud emails impersonating HDFC and IDBI banks. Emails looked pretty legitimate unless you looked into the email headers or actually visited the link provided in them. Below are some screen shots of the emails that I received. You may also see some superficial investigation I underwent to make [...]
Lawsuit notice: Social Engineering Attack
Yesterday, I got an email saying some company has filed a lawsuit against me in court with the link to download a word file supposed to be containing copyright law violations. As expected it turned out to be a very sophisticated social engineering attack. When I downloaded the file and scan in virustotal, very few [...]
Apple iPad SEO poisoning attack
What is SEO Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site. As an internet marketing strategy, webmasters edit the HTML content to increase its relevance to popular keywords; thereby raising ranking of their websites. SEO techniques can be broadly categorized under white hat and [...]
URL shortening: Social engineering attack vector
URL shortening is a technique in the World Wide Web wherein a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. For example, the page http://blog.chackraview.net/2010/01/19/operation-aurora/ can be shortened to http://bit.ly/5RJICq As web clients tends to pass more and more data in the URL to communicate with [...]
