Bredolab variant delivered by fake Facebook warning
There are over 600 millions of active Facebook users in the world, so it’s no wonder that they are often targets of a great variety of scams. The latest one is delivered …
Cybercriminals shifting to smaller, more opportunistic attacks
Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the “Verizon 2011 Data Breach …
Easter greetings deliver malware
The days leading up to major religious holidays are when you should be more careful with the contents of your inbox. One malicious spam run recently spotted by McAfee consists …
Epsilon breach leads to more than just phishing
Since the Epsilon breach, the customers of the company’s clients – such as US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, TiVo, Capital One, the Home Shopping Network, LL Bean Visa …
Malware silently hijacks Facebook account and adds apps
Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …
“Request rejected” spam campaign leads to fake AV
A spam email campaign carrying a malicious attachment designed to download and run a fake AV solution on the recipient’s computer is currently hitting inboxes around the …
Ransom Trojan locks Windows
Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn’t …
7 steps to protect against online fraud
Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail …
“Official Profile Viewer Application” Facebook scam
After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …
Scammers continue to exploit Japanese disasters
As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …
Uptick in rogue Facebook applications
GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2011. GFI researchers found that the Japanese tsunami, earthquake and subsequent …
Bogus Facebook app harvests user login credentials
A bogus application harvesting Facebook users’ login credentials has recently appeared on the social network, according to Symantec researchers. Luring in users with …
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