cybercriminals
36 credit card fraud websites taken down
36 website domains, used to sell compromised card data, have been taken down following a day of action on Wednesday to target online criminals by SOCA working with the FBI and …
IT security pros most afraid of highly publicized attacks
Concerns over hacktivism and targeted state-sponsored attacks are at the top of security professionals’ minds according to a new survey and research report sponsored by …
How cybercriminals are infecting networks
Research by Websense reveals the trifecta that is driving epidemic levels of data theft: 1) extremely effective social media lures 2) evasive and hard-to-detect infiltration …
New York top city for online fraud activity
New York is the nation’s epicenter for online fraudsters, followed by Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Omaha respectively. Leveraging a sample of nearly a billion …
Malware disguised as new Instagram Android app
Instagram, the popular free photo sharing app for iOS devices, is now available for download for Android users on Google Play and Instagram’s website. Unfortunately, a …
Active fake AV spam campaigns hit Twitter
Two distinct malicious spam campaigns are currently targeting Twitter users and taking them to compromised sites serving rogue AV and scareware software, warns GFI. The …
Bogus “Account limit exceeded” emails targeting Yahoo users
Fake Yahoo email notifications are hitting inboxes and urging users to verify their account because it has “exceeded its limit”, Hoax-Slayer warns. The message is …
APT attackers spoof email sent by malware researcher
Pro-Tibetan activists and organizations currently seem to be one of the most targeted groups when it comes to emails with malicious attachments, and the people behind the …
Assorted ransomware targeting users
A slew of ransomware has been detected by a number of security companies in the last few days. Trend Micro researchers have spotted a ransomware variant that overwrites the …
Zeus targets cloud payroll service to siphon money
With critical business services migrating to the cloud, service providers have become a prime target for cybercriminals. In the latest example of financial malware targeting …
Fake account verification email phishes for Google credentials
Once again, Google users are being targeted with emails purportedly coming from the Google Team, confirming a bogus recovery e-mail update: Seeing the threat of a permanent …
Email campaigns still targeting pro-Tibetan orgs
Malicious Tibetan-themed email campaigns are still going strong, targeting pro-Tibetan organizations and making them inadvertently install malware on their machines. The …