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Bouncer kit perfect for laser-focused phishing campaigns

Researchers have unearthed a new type of phishing kit that allows crooks to target specific users and keep away others in order to keep the scheme hidden from knowing eyes and …

“Southwest Airlines giveaway” Facebook scam doing rounds

A new survey scam is targeting Facebook users, misusing the name of well-known Southwest Airlines to supposedly offer two free tickets to any destination within the U.S. Users …

Log audit reveals developer outsourced his job to China

Log analysis can reveal a lot of security mistakes and fails, but a lot of security sins, too. Take for example the incident recently shared by Verizon’s Risk Team: …

Automated YouTube account generator offered to cyber crooks

You’re a spammer / malware peddler / phisher, and want to register hundreds of bogus accounts on a popular online service such as YouTube in order to lead users to your …

Microsoft patches critical IE 0-day used in watering hole attacks

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the Internet Explorer 0-day recently discovered to have been misused in a series of targeted watering hole attacks linked to …

Fake MSN/Hotmail email alert phishes for user info

Despite the fact that spam levels decreased by 53% in 2012 as compared to 2011, targeted spam and phishing attacks via e-mail are on the rise. Some of these campaigns consist …

Aaron Swartz’s death triggers MIT investigation, website hack

The news that well-known Web activist and developer Aaron Swartz took his own life on Friday resounded across the Internet at an amazing speed during this past weekend. Many …

Oracle patches critical 0-day with new Java update

Oracle has released Java 7 Update 11, the computing platform’s newest version that patches the recently discovered and currently widely misused zero-day vulnerability, …

Disable Java! Recent 0-day exploit is included in exploit kits

The Java zero-day that has recently been spotted being exploited in the wild has turned into big, big news as a number of popular exploit kits have been fitted with the …

Fake LinkedIn notifications lead to phishing and malware

LinkedIn users are once again targeted with a massive and widespread spam campaign that takes the form of a notification about a supposedly received message from a potential …

Spoofed Google Chrome update page serves malware

Malware peddlers are taking advantage of yesterday’s release of the latest version of Google Chrome and have already set up a spoofed page of the initial rollout page in …

DDoS attackers on U.S. banks get help from hired botnets

It’s already common knowledge that major commercial bank in the U.S. are under a new series of DDoS attacks. As with the first one, the responsibility for this one that …

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