My wife has been sent a message from a fake Skype account, 4am local time, made with my name and surname. I only have a business skype account with this combo, did not send the message. Business Skype seems to work normally otherwise this morning.
The message was only a link to a website mindllwits.com - not listed in Google, someone put some effort to create it though, looks like a regular wired/whatever site. Don't open/search for it.
The article is "normal" just some advertising crap about a super pill endorsed by Stephen Hawking no less. Regular ads, etc.
She was not asked for any details, ie log in, password details etc, again appears to be just a regular webpage.
First question is - what can be picked up on when opening such a webpage, assuming that it is designed for a phishing attack?
Webpage was opened in Chrome on Android 4.4.
I did not find anything like this in general in google search, and it is a bit unusual to be targeted directly in this manner.
Another curiosity, even though I am married close to 20 years, we do not share the same surname, so somebody had to read something to connect us. I have minimal web presence in my name, no FB account, only on LinkedIn and not connected to her etc and will be really surprised that some bot picked this relationship up so nicely.
So either someone is actually bothering to waste time to target us, which would be kind of worrying, or there is some list of names out there, and all my contacts could be getting BS sent to them pretending that it's me.
I did lose an android phone with a long list of contacts about 2 years ago. Business Skype with details was not loaded there.
Any ideas?
#1 - A bot or an actual human?
#2 - What can be loaded to android/is a known possibility when only opening a fake webpage? It did not appear to have asked to install anything.
#3 - Any reason for the attacker to use Skype specifically?
The message was only a link to a website mindllwits.com - not listed in Google, someone put some effort to create it though, looks like a regular wired/whatever site. Don't open/search for it.
The article is "normal" just some advertising crap about a super pill endorsed by Stephen Hawking no less. Regular ads, etc.
She was not asked for any details, ie log in, password details etc, again appears to be just a regular webpage.
First question is - what can be picked up on when opening such a webpage, assuming that it is designed for a phishing attack?
Webpage was opened in Chrome on Android 4.4.
I did not find anything like this in general in google search, and it is a bit unusual to be targeted directly in this manner.
Another curiosity, even though I am married close to 20 years, we do not share the same surname, so somebody had to read something to connect us. I have minimal web presence in my name, no FB account, only on LinkedIn and not connected to her etc and will be really surprised that some bot picked this relationship up so nicely.
So either someone is actually bothering to waste time to target us, which would be kind of worrying, or there is some list of names out there, and all my contacts could be getting BS sent to them pretending that it's me.
I did lose an android phone with a long list of contacts about 2 years ago. Business Skype with details was not loaded there.
Any ideas?
#1 - A bot or an actual human?
#2 - What can be loaded to android/is a known possibility when only opening a fake webpage? It did not appear to have asked to install anything.
#3 - Any reason for the attacker to use Skype specifically?
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