Zeljka Zorz
SMS Privato Spy: Another piece of bogus software for sale
Every so often, a new piece of non-existent software gets advertised by scammers that are eager to part users with their hard earned cash. The latest one to be spotted is …
Six arrested for phishing scam targeting students
Four men and two women suspected of having taken part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted hundreds of UK students were arrested by the Met’s Police Central …
Telstra privacy blunder reveals account details of some 1m customers
Personal and account details of over one million customers of Australian telecom giant Telstra were accessible to any Internet user – and may have been taken advantage …
EU wants firms to stop selling surveillance tools to repressive regimes
We are all aware of the fact that some regimes have no qualms about spying on their citizens in order to keep tabs on dissenters. Nevertheless, last week’s revelation by …
Delivering banking Trojan via malicious boot loaders
Brazil is a country whose Internet users are targeted almost exclusively by cyber crooks wielding banking Trojans. It is also a country where a majority of users still runs …
Download.com “cleans up” Nmap but not other downloads
When he discovered that Nmap was being distributed by C|Net’s Download.com site bundled up with a proprietary trojan installer that installed a sketchy toolbar, changed …
Spam run frightens with fake news about epidemic
The time has come again for users to be targeted with spam emails alerting them to an epidemic raging in some part of the world: The subject line contains a simple …
Zero-day Adobe Reader flaw exploited in ongoing attacks
Adobe has issued a security advisory notifying users about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which has been spotted being …
Personal information of 3.5 million poker players leaked
Personal data of some 3.5 million users of the Ultimate Bet poker website have been made available for download on an online forum for a short time. The data included the …
Fake Verizon notification carries malware
A sneaky spam email campaign aiming to infect users with a banking Trojan is currently underway and is targeting mobile carrier customers, warns Microsoft. The email purports …
Fraudsters beat two-factor authentication, steal $45k
It seems that two-factor authentication solutions that deliver verification codes to mobile phones are not as foolproof as one might think – a lesson that an Australian …
Facebook bug allows users to access private photos
A bug tied to Facebook’s “Report/Block” process can be misused to access uploaded photos of people who have chosen not to share them publicly, says a poster …