cybercriminals
“Free additional storage” phishing emails doing rounds
Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering “storage quota upgrades”. A …
Child ID theft epidemic continues to spread
The epidemic of child identity theft revealed last year is continuing to grow. 10.7% of the nearly 27,000 children in the study are victims of identity theft, 35 times higher …
Flashback botnet is a cash cow
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal …
Bank robbery 2.0: Online banking in the sights
There are very few technologies that have affected our everyday lives as much as the Internet. It has changed the way we communicate in many ways and has revolutionized …
Trojanized Grand Theft Audio for Android spotted
A Trojan masquerading as “Grand Theft Auto 10th Anniversary Edition” for Android has lately been spotted being offered on third-party Russian websites. More …
Mobile vulnerabilities increased by 93%
A new Symantec report shows that while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20 percent, the number of malicious attacks continued to skyrocket by 81 percent. In …
Gamex Trojan threatens Android users
A new Android Trojan that first paves the way for the download of other apps and them effects it has been spotted lurking on third-party websites, camouflaged as legitimate …
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 …
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