{"id":251,"date":"2023-06-19T20:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2023-06-19T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:37:37","slug":"scareware-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/scareware-is-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Scareware is not dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An email was forwarded to me that came from a security MSP trying to stir up business with someone at the company I work at. Their quasi-scareware email was funny, but a horrible way for us to take seriously. Only thing missing was a sentence asking for bitcoin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember several years ago, companies were scanning their web server logs and doing DNS look-ups to find out  what companies visited their website. Then the Spam and cold call of sales would begin. That tactic finally died off&#8230;&#8230;mostly. The below email was not sent to our company from a DNS look-up scrape (I know, as our external IP&#8217;s at work can barely can tell you what state we are in), it was pure spam. Probably someone going through Linkedin and such finding contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ScareWare.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ScareWare.png 882w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ScareWare-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ScareWare-768x217.png 768w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ScareWare-660x186.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If you send an email that begins like this, we cannot take you seriously.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ah, remembering the good ole days, when the scareware looked like an actual alert:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/scareware-example2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/scareware-example2.png 516w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/scareware-example2-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email was forwarded to me that came from a security MSP trying to stir up business with someone at the company I work at. Their quasi-scareware email was funny, but a horrible way for us to take seriously. Only thing missing was a sentence asking for bitcoin. I remember several years ago, companies were\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/scareware-is-not-dead\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}