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Fake PayPal payment notification leads to malware

PayPal might have passed the torch of the most phished brand to China’s Taobao.com, but that doesn’t mean that phishers and other scammers have stopped delivering …

PayPal no longer the most phished brand

A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that in the second half of 2011, China’s Taobao.com became the world’s most …

PayPal unveils new global mobile payments solution

PayPal announced PayPal Here, the first global mobile payments solution that allows small businesses to accept almost any form of payment. The service includes a free app and …

“PayPal email address change” phishing scheme doing rounds

PayPal users are targeted again as emails supposedly sent by the online payment company urge them to fill out a form with their personal and financial information in order to …

Fake PayPal Account Review Notification doing rounds

An email notification supposedly sent by PayPal saying that an intrusion into the user’s account has been detected is currently hitting inboxes around the world. …

Browser companies react to BEAST attack

As Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong have demonstrated on Friday, the SSL/TLS encryption used by the great majority of websites has been cracked. Their BEAST (Browser Exploit …

Arrested Anonymous activists just a small part of a long list

Even though the FBI started serving search warrants and arresting people suspected in participating in the Anonymous’ “Operation Payback” way back in …

Hackers publish stolen PayPal login credentials

LulzSec has been assimilated back into Anonymous, but their AntiSec campaign keeps going. It seems that their final wish has been granted for now, and other hacking groups …

PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes

PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with “Please confirm your identity” in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download …

3-and-a-half years sentence for PayPal thief

Accused of having broken into 303 eBay and PayPal accounts and of stealing over £180,000 in total from the legitimate owners of the accounts, a person from Nottingham has …

Multilingual PayPal phishing e-mails doing rounds

A recent report compiled by OpenDNS showed that 45 percent of all phishing attempts made in 2010 were targeting PayPal customers. It is no wonder then that we witness PayPal …

PayPal most phished, Facebook most blocked

OpenDNS released statistics about which websites were commonly blocked — and which websites users were frequently given access to — in 2010. The report additionally details …

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