scams

An extremely legitimate looking email supposedly coming from PayPal has been hitting inboxes in the last few days, trying to trick customers of the popular e-payment giant to …

“Wire transfer confirmation” spam emails are nothing new – they’ve been regularly turning up in users’ inboxes throughout the years. But, as much …

Ransomware is still targeting users all over Europe and, as per usual, it shows warnings seemingly coming from police agencies of the country in which the victim resides …

419 scams have at one time been so prevalent, that the majority of Internet users were faced with at least one per week. We thought we have seen it all: inheritances from …

Fake Amazon order confirmations are hitting inboxes and trying to trick recipients into following any of the links to a page serving the Blackhole exploit kit. The email looks …

Emails purportedly sent by Craigslist have been hitting users’ inboxes and trying to get them to follow the offered link to a website hosting the Blackhole exploit kit, …

A new piece of Android malware that has recently been unearthed by NQ Mobile researchers is capable of logging text messages and phone calls, as well as record them, and send …

Cybercriminals know that financial and ecommerce providers often use fraud detection systems that monitor for anomalous transactions and behaviors. In order to bypass these …

The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship kicks off in Poland on Friday, and scammers are trying to trick football fans into thinking the organizers have selected them as …

After analyzing online transactions such as credit applications and e-commerce purchases, iovation found the University of California at San Francisco to be the university …

In this video, Christopher Boyd, Senior Threat Researcher at GFI Software, talks about how scammers increasingly target gamers and gaming databases because of valuable …

An email purportedly coming from the promotion manager of the London 2012 Olympics has been hitting inboxes, trying to scam recipients into sending personal information and …