Monday, May 24, 2010

DontPhishMe help you prevent from web phishing on Mozilla Firefox.


DontPhishMe is an initiative of MyCERT, CyberSecurity Malaysia, to provide a security mechanism in preventing online banking phishing threat specifically for local Malaysian banks.

DontPhishMe is an addon to Firefox that alerts you if an online banking web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous. That's why it's important to browse safely with DontPhishMe. DontPhishMe will automatically warn you when you encounter a page that's trying to trick you into disclosing personal information.


UPDATE!

New version has been release yesterday (7 June 2010) . To download and install click DontPhishMe banner above or click here!.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Mass email Spam/Scam start to appear from Malaysia!

I was monitoring some of email that consider to be spam and scam that coming from Malaysia a few months ago that doing some business but spoofing their FROM address with various name and email subject. Every time receive this email most of their subject will says 'akan dilancarkan' or 'will be launch'. Below is some of the desperate business email address that considered to be a spam:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

and more from the image below:


The spam scam email could be look like this:



Some of the email is desperately uses actress/actor name, political people name, hot issues, and famous people to continuously spamming 4-5 times (maybe more) a day wishing to get a good luck to catch poor peoples. There is a few report from user on the internet:

http://malaysianspam.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/
WangCyber.com

If you found these email address on your email in-boxes please report to GMail by clicking here! or just simply report to Cyber999@MyCERT.