What hides behind the get-rich-working-from-home offers?
Do you ever get tempted to click on one of the myriad of work-from-home, get-paid-huge-money adverts that are littering the Internet? Do you ever wonder if those claims are …
Bogus chat spying Facebook app targets users
No matter how often fake “See who viewed your profile” apps are touted on Facebook, there are always users that fall for the trick and follow the steps required by …
Scammers sending out bogus job offers
Cyber scammers do not hesitate using every scrap of information there is on the Internet in order to gain users’ trust and misuse it for their malicious purposes. Also, …
Cybercriminals exploiting user inexperience
Noteworthy threats in October 2011 included the return of a rogue web browser, a phony hacking tool for Gmail account password recovery and malware disguised as advertisements …
Bitdefender prevents scams on Twitter
Bitdefender is adding a tool to its arsenal to prevent scams on Twitter. Safego has emerged successful from beta testing by Twitter users and will be incorporated into …
The 12 scams of Christmas
‘Tis the season for consumers to spend more time online – shopping for gifts, looking for great holiday deals on new digital gadgets, e-planning family …
Fake Kaspersky AV solution offered via spam emails
Rogue AV software mimicking popular legitimate AV solutions is occasionally offered by cyber crooks in the hopes that the familiar name and look will entice users into buying …
Hybrid social engineering attacks
Fraudulent phone calls are increasing in popularity. One possible use for these bogus “bank’ calls is to utilize personal identification information stolen using …
20-fold increase in fraudulent spam
In Q3 2011, the percentage of fraudulent emails in spam traffic increased twenty times, rising from 0.1 per cent last quarter to 2 per cent of all spam traffic in Q3. The …
Why do malicious Android apps come from China?
It seems like every time we hear about a malicious application aimed at Android users, it is always distributed by third-party Chinese app markets. You might wonder why the …
Fake PayPal Account Review Notification doing rounds
An email notification supposedly sent by PayPal saying that an intrusion into the user’s account has been detected is currently hitting inboxes around the world. …
Latest spam trends and predictions for the end of the year
As the percentage of fraudulent emails received by users in the third quarter of 2011 has risen sharply and they represented 2 percent of all received spam emails, Kaspersky …
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