Farewell, Angelina, the belle of the town*

I haven’t done much on this blog recently: not because spam, scams and hoaxes have disappeared, but because there’s always lots else going on in the security threat business.

However, I couldn’t resist blogging about a conference scam email I received apparently signed by the eponymouse (sic) dancing rodent AngelinaBallerina: Scam conference invites: a tail of several cities. More mousetrap than honeytrap…

Subsequently flagged by Softpedia here. And another famous mouse works on his darker side here.

There’s also a hoax/social media white paper due out shortly on ESET’s Threat Center page. I’ll flag the paper itself here when it’s up, of course.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP

* Farewell Angelina – almost…