cybercriminals
A study of hacker forums
Recently Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members. In this podcast, Rob Rachwald, the …
Duqu not developed by Stuxnet author
The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team has been analyzing the Duqu trojan which received a great deal of attention because it is similar to the infamous …
Cyber crooks migrate to “ce.ms” free domains
Online scammers and malware peddlers often exhibit locust-like behavior as they migrate from one type of free domains to another in order to evade detection by spam filters …
Combating Halloween malware threats
GFI Software released tips for spotting and combating malware attacks and threats in the run up to Halloween. Halloween has now become firmly established as a family event in …
Facebook spammers trick users into sharing anti-CSRF tokens
Facebook spammers have already used a number of different approaches to make users inadvertently propagate their scams, and most of them fall into the social engineering …
180,000 Swedes at risk following password-hacking spree
Registered members of around 60 popular Swedish websites are in danger of having their stolen login credentials misused by cyber crooks in the wake of the biggest ever …
Personal info of 9 million Israelis stolen, available online
Personal information of some 9 million Israelis (alive and deceased) has been stolen by a contractor working for the country’s Ministry of Labor and Welfare with the …
New mass SQL injection attack making rounds
Again a mass SQL injection attack is making its rounds on the web – this one called jjghui referring to the website it redirects traffic to. As Armorize reported, this …
Hijacked phishing page warns users about phishing
hen you follow security news daily like I do, it is tough to keep a positive outlook when day after day you hear and read of users falling for basically the same scams simply …
Ten early warning signs of fraud
Anti-fraud consultancy UK Fraud published a list of ten common early warning signs which could alert management that fraud may be occurring in their organization. The list …
Mac Trojan disrupts automatic updating of XProtect
A variant of the recently discovered Flashback Trojan for Mac OS X has acquired the capability to disrupt the automatic updating of XProtect, the operating system’s …
Information theft still a serious threat to global business
Fraud remains predominantly an inside job, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study shows that 60 percent of frauds are committed by insiders, up from 55 …