cybercriminals
Fake Booking.com warning leads to tons of malware
A massive spam campaign impersonating the popular online hotel reservations agency Booking.com is underway, trying to convince recipients to download a document supposedly …
Cybergangs embracing crimeware over social engineering
The APWG reports that there was a constant decline in the number of traditional phishing websites through September 2012, counterfeits usually impersonating well-known …
Malicious Chrome extensions promoted via Facebook
Malicious Chrome extensions are lurking on the official Chrome Web Store, warns Kaspersky Lab Expert Fabio Assolini, and the campaign for leading users to them starts on …
Aerospace and defense firms targeted with clever spear phishing
Directors, vice presidents and other top management of companies in the aerospace industry and U.S. government and defense contractors have recently been targeted with a …
China-based hackers infiltrated New York Times’ network
The New York Times’ computer systems and network has been breached and its journalists’ private computers and email correspondence spied on for a period of four …
FedEx-themed malicious emails bombarding inboxes
FedEx customers are constantly targeted with malicious emails supposedly coming from the global courier delivery service, but since the start of the year, FedEx-themed spam …
Cross-site scripting attacks up 160%
Each quarter, FireHost reports on the Superfecta – a group of four cyberattacks that are the most dangerous – and warns that both Cross-Site Scripting and SQL …
Trojan uses anti-spam system to keep in touch with C&C servers
Most malware is severely crippled if it can’t contact the C&C servers from which it receives its instructions and updates, so malware authors are constantly coming …
Cutwail botnet on spam rampage, delivers Cridex worm
Since its inception some six years ago, the Cutwail / Pandex botnet experienced its fair share of setbacks, but it’s still going strong. The main reason for its …
How to avoid Facebook scams and limit the damage they make
Last week I wrote about the most common Facebook scams, the reasons why they are perpetually so successful, and what the scammers who set them up are after. Today I will …
Users targeted with phishing scam via Facebook messages
Facebook users are advised to be on the lookout for bogus personal messages supposedly sent by the Facebook Security Team. The message claims that the users’ account has …
The arrival of the post-PC threat era
With the release of its 2012 Annual Roundup and Mobile Security reports, Trend Micro documents how cybercriminals have moved beyond the PC, targeting Android, social media and …
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