Saturday, March 10, 2012

Does anyone know about cryhike.com? I assume it is spam or phishing?

A friend of mine had someone tell her that her pictures from facebook were on cryhike.com. When you go to the site, it immediately tells her that it has detected photos from her ip address have been recently uploaded to the site. In order to see the photos, it wants you to fill out a form with name, email address, etc. I went to the site and it did the same thing. Does anyone know what this site is? I assume that its spam or a phishing attempt.Does anyone know about cryhike.com? I assume it is spam or phishing?
It certainly is. The domain name was created by someone named Victoria David in Las Vegas who has registered other sites exactly like this one.



The information for this site says "THE PIC IS OF A MONKEY - THIS IS A HARMLESS PRANK SITE" but if it was just a prank they wouldn't be asking for your name and email address.Does anyone know about cryhike.com? I assume it is spam or phishing?
Be careful with this kind of lure message:

A new virus is spreading through Facebook %26amp; other "Social Networking" sites.

The Koobface -- a worm designed specifically to spread over social-networking sites -- is blasting spam messages out to Facebook members. The motive is to enable hijacking and click fraud.



The messages offer subject lines like "You look so funny on our new video" or similar enticing words, and offer a link to a video site that pretends to have a movie clip. When the user follows the link, they are redirected to one of many different compromised hosts, where the user is urged to download or open a file named flash_player.exe. That file is a new Koobface variant.



Anything remotely resembling this kind of crud should be marked 'Spam' and deleted via that method.Does anyone know about cryhike.com? I assume it is spam or phishing?
exactly what the people above said.

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