New tool for Facebook scammers
Facebook has rolled out a new feature for comments, allowing content to be directly embedded in the comments themselves. My first thought upon reading this announcement was …
Enhanced phishing methods on the rise
There’s been an increase in targeted and combined email-based threats, a new twist in phishing attacks, and an escalation in social engineering scams through popular …
Facebook scammers use Tumblr sites to evade detection
Facebook users are targeted once again by survey scammers, and this time the lure is a video of a woman exposing herself on live television: There are two versions of the …
Fake financial statements and postal documents lead to fake AV
Fake emails purportedly coming from financial institutions and the post are currently hitting inboxes and are carrying a malicious .exe file disguised as a Word document. …
New Hotmail security features against account hijacking
Microsoft has decided to introduce two new security features for its web-based Hotmail service, in the hope that this will make the accounts more difficult to hijack and …
Apple iDisk users targeted by phishers
Users of iDisk – Apple’s paid online file-hosting service bundled up in the MobileMe package – are being targeted by phishers, warns Symantec. Its …
Google+ related scams move to Facebook
Scammers continue to take advantage of the great interest raised by the introduction of Google+ and have begun tricking Facebook users into giving them access to their …
“Traffic ticket” spam email leads to scareware
A malicious email purportedly coming from the New York State Police is currently doing the rounds of inboxes and trying to scare people into opening and running the attached …
Three jailed for online banking attack
Three men have been jailed for a total of 13.5 years for their part in a sophisticated and concerted attack on the UK and international banking system following an …
Scammers lure users with fake Google+ invites
Google recently opened for business a social network named Google+, and to avoid making mistakes that plagued the rollout of its predecessor Google Buzz, the company has …
“Casey Anthony confession video” scam spreads
The verdict in the high-profile Casey Anthony case has ultimately disappointed a lot of people who believe that she did kill her two-year-old daughter, and scammers have …
Law enforcement winning the battle against cybercrime
June was a difficult time for cybercriminals as it saw some notable successes for various law enforcement agencies in the war on cybercrime, according to Kaspersky Lab’s …