scams

You may have seen reports of a Facebook themed “remove my timeline” scam, where users are asked to install a browser extension to roll Facebook back to the way it …

The number of unique phishing reports submitted to the APWG rose substantially from early fall through the end of the year, while cybercrime gangs were apparently forced to …

Cyber scammers are still too rarely brought to justice and/or made to pay back the stolen money to the users they have swindled, so any news of that happening is extremely …

Fake account cancellation emails are targeting Facebook users and trying to get them infected with information-stealing malware, warns Sophos. The email looks pretty …

Trusteer came across a complex new criminal scheme involving the Tatanga Trojan that conducts an elaborate Man in the Browser (MitB) attack to bypass SMS based transaction …

Online scammers and malware peddlers know that the more afraid and desperate their targets are, the more likely it is that they will fall for their tactics, so their repeated …

A bogus American Express account ID verification email is currently doing rounds, trying to trick users into following the offered links: The email might look like a phishing …

Pinterest continues to draw both users and scammers in search for easy targets. Trend Micro fraud analyst Paul Pajares has recently delved into the world of Pinterest scams, …

Today’s the day when Facebook has officially become a publicly traded company, after founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell and officially opened trading on the Nasdaq …

Seemingly overnight, Pinterest gained massive momentum, making cyber scammers sit up and take notice, then jump right in. But the opportunities the site gives to those looking …

Trusteer discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against users of Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail and Yahoo – offering …

Hotmail users are once again targeted by phishers. With “E-mail account alert!” in the Subject line, the fake email ostensibly comes from Microsoft. “This …