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World Cup Brazil 2014: How cybercriminals are looking to score
Starting this week, 32 national teams and thousands of football fans will descend on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Right now the teams are fine-tuning their strategies …
Beware of emails offering bogus HeartBleed removal tool
Malware peddlers are taking advantage of the fact that the existence of the Heartbleed bug has breached the confines of the cyber security world and has entered the awareness …
Molerats attacks continue targeting US, EU, Middle East organizations
Not all RAT-wielding attackers come from China, say FireEye researchers. For over a year they have been following the activities of a group of hackers that uses the Poison Ivy …
Large increase in PayPal-related phishing URLs
CYREN published its April 2014 Internet Threats Trend Report. Among its findings, they revealed a 73 percent increase in the number of phishing attacks aimed at PayPal users. …
Sophisticated Google Drive phishing campaign persists
Symantec researchers are once again warning about a sophisticated and persistent phishing campaign targeting Google users. The victims are hit with fake emails sporting a …
Google adds new security features to Google Apps
Here is some welcome news for Google Apps Business, Government and Education customers: the company has implemented three new security features to protect them from phishing, …
Phishing campaigns target diverse webmail users at once
Every now and then, phishers mount campaigns that simultaneously target users of different online services. This time the lures are different: access to a document that is …
Office workers have little trust in digital world
The majority of UK office workers have trouble deciding who to trust in the digital world, however this isn’t surprising considering 14 percent have already been badly …
Google account passwords stolen in phishing attack
Hackers have been stealing Google account passwords in a new and better crafted phishing attack that is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, according to …
The prime target for malicious emails
In the first quarter of 2014 spammers started imitating messages from mobile applications. They especially like the popular mobile messengers – WhatsApp, Viber and …
Beware of Google+ “Fraudulent Verification Survey” phishing scam
Phishers are again after Google account login details – this time they are trying pass themselves off as the nonexistent “Google+ All Domain Mail Team” and …
Researchers share details about recent IE 0-day exploit and its delivery
Given that Microsoft has closed the Internet Explorer 0-day vulnerability that was exploited to compromise US-based defense and financial firms, the Sourcefire vulnerability …
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