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Bogus Amazon account compromise notice leads to phishing

A phishing email impersonating Amazon is hitting users’ inboxes, trying to trick them into believing that various computers connected to their Amazon account and …

Webroot adds anti-phishing to Web Security Service

Webroot announced the integration of anti-phishing capabilities into the Webroot Web Security Service, a cloud-based security service. The challenges in the detection of …

Go Daddy says DNS records hijacking was due to phishing

Last week malware peddlers have managed to compromise the DNS records of Go Daddy hosted websites so that they would redirect victims to malicious sites hosting the Cool …

“Twitter is going to start charging” phishing scheme pops up

Twitter users are being actively targeted with DMs falsely announcing Twitter’s decision to start charging its use, warns the pair behind the @TweerSmarter account. …

Fake Tesco free Christmas voucher offer leads to phishing

Emails purportedly coming from British retailer Tesco offering free Christmas shopping vouchers have been hitting inboxes around the world, warns Hoax-Slayer. The link that …

CloudFlare users targeted by phishers

Popular content delivery network and distributed domain name server service CloudFlare has issued a warning to its users about an ongoing phishing scam: Dear cloudflare.com …

12 scams of Christmas

A Harris Interactive study, conducted online among over 2,300 U.S. adults, investigates the online habits and behaviors of Americans, including those who indicate that they …

Free game offer leads to Steam phishing site

Online gamers are often targeted with phishing schemes set up by crooks who are after users’ in-game items and money, and the latest one to be spotted is aimed at Steam …

Bank of America customers under phishing attack

Bank of America customers, beware – the old “account suspended” warning purportedly sent by your bank’s Cardmember Services is hitting inboxes once …

Phishing websites proliferate at record speed

A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that while the uptime of phishing websites dropped during the first half of 2012, …

Weak crypto allowed spoofing emails from Google, PayPal domains

Zach Harris, a Florida-based mathematician, discovered that Google and many other big Internet companies use weak cryptographic keys for certifying the emails sent from their …

Bogus Twitter DMs lead to iPad scam, surveys and phishing

Yesterday’s unveiling of the iPad Mini has not lead to a decrease in desirability of its bigger version, and the offer of a free device is still a very effective lure …

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