Ebuyer Billing Email

[bodhi]

Anyone else had an email from Ebuyer asking them to confirm their billing details?

 

[Ian]

Nope - could it be a phishing e-mail (check any URLs in the mail)? I'd log into ebuyer without clicking on any links just in case.

 

[itsme]

Nope they dont!so DONT you either >phishing

 

[bodhi]

Haha, too late. I clicked on the link.

I'm always very suspicious of things like that, but clicked on the link anyway because I wanted to see what it did. And also because I'm at work so it's not my own computer! haha.

I didn't do anything though, just closed it down again afterwards.

 

[muckshifter]

doh!!

Haha, too late. I clicked on the link.

I'm always very suspicious of things like that, but clicked on the link anyway because I wanted to see what it did. And also because I'm at work so it's not my own computer! haha.

I didn't do anything though, just closed it down again afterwards.

Sometimes I wonder ...

Drive-by downloads represent a shift in the methods used by hackers to invade your systems. Not long ago, wide-scale attacks that took aim at overwhelming computing resources were the preferred game plan. Such attacks use a “push” model. As network tools got better at defending against denial-of-service attacks, the bad guys adopted a “pull” model that has users inadvertently downloading unwanted payloads.

Two “pull” techniques are in wide use today. In one, hackers use social engineering to entice trusting users to perform some action that downloads software carrying a payload. For example, clicking on a link to an e-card that turns out to be bogus. Fortunately, end users can be taught to be cautious of such con games. [my edit (err, we try to teach them) ]

The second, more ominous method is to automatically deliver the payload when the user lands on a compromised Web page. Worst of all is that landing on a malicious site is often completely out of the hands of the Web surfer, as he may actually be taken there without his knowledge.

So, infecting works systems is OK then?

 

[itsme]

I did warn him mucks

 

[bodhi]

Not really, but I'd rather do that than infect my own system. It was just a moment of madness from me.