phishing

UK tax season threatened by phishing and malware attacks

March 18, 2014

Bitdefender has warned taxpayers to be cautious after discovering that a total of 10,000 tax-related spam emails were sent in a single day in the first week of March. The tax …

Beware of well-executed Google Docs phishing scam

March 14, 2014

An extremely convincing phishing spam campaign is currently targeting Google Docs and Google Drive users. It all starts with an email that tells potential victims that an …

Netflix users targeted in active tech support scam

March 3, 2014

Malwarebytes’ security researcher Jerome Segura has recently analyzed a rather creative tech support scam that is actively targeting Netflix users. He doesn’t say …

Webroot delivers APT protection for enterprises

February 27, 2014

Webroot announced the release of BrightCloud Security Services and BreachLogic Endpoint Agent, two cloud-based security offerings designed to help enterprises address the …

Beware of fake PayPal “Survey Program” offers

February 24, 2014

PayPal users based in the UK are being targeted with a spoofed PayPal email offering a reward for participating in a “new survey program,” warns Malwarebytes. …

First-rate phishing email claims “Your Paypal transaction was declined”

February 20, 2014

Extremely well-made fake notifications claiming the recipients’ PayPal transaction was declined are doing rounds and trying to trick users sharing personal and financial …

Fake SSL certificates used to impersonate Facebook, Google, banks

February 13, 2014

Analysts with UK-based Internet research firm Netcraft have discovered a considerable number of fake SSL certificates in the wild, created to impersonate banks, social …

As crimeware evolves, phishing attacks increase

February 12, 2014

The number of phishing campaigns increased by more than 20 percent in the third quarter of 2013, with crimeware attacks evolving and proliferating, according to the APWG. The …

Beware of bogus Google “Suspicious sign-in prevented” emails

January 30, 2014

A very convincing phishing attempt aimed at harvesting users’ Google account credentials has been spotted by a security researcher (click on the screenshot to enlarge …

Microsoft reveals law enforcement documents were stolen in latest hack

January 27, 2014

With a short blog post, Microsoft has announced on Friday that unknown hackers might have accessed and exfiltrated information regarding law enforcement information requests …

Financial data leads the malicious spam hit list

January 24, 2014

The proportion of spam in email traffic continues to fall – in the last three years the share of unsolicited messages has fallen by 10.7 percentage points. It appears …

Apple users hit with “Update using new SSL servers” phishing email

January 21, 2014

Users with Apple Accounts are again being targeted with legitimate-looking phishing emails that are after their account credentials, personal and financial information. …