DHL Express spam campaign leads to fake AV
A new spam campaign impersonating the popular mail service DHL Express is currently underway, warn Bkis researchers. The email in question looks like this: Once the user …
Conde Nast scammed out of $8 million with single spear phishing email
Conde Nast – the company that publishes popular magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired, Vanity Fair, and many others – has been nearly defrauded …
Phishing scam offers fake Adobe Reader upgrade
Spam campaigns that target Adobe users are rather common, but there are always some users that haven’t heard about them and fall for the scam that offers them a fake …
Cheap Zeus source code will generate more Trojan variants
Barely two months after cybercriminals put the source code of Zeus up for sale at $100,000, reports are now coming in that the source code is being offered at bargain basement …
Millions in privacy violations wake-up the healthcare industry
What can healthcare organizations learn from the multi- million dollar penalties recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) …
MacScan 2.8 released
SecureMac released MacScan 2.8, the latest version of its anti-spyware, privacy and security software for Mac OS X. Detect, isolate, and remove spyware as well as clean up …
Secunia joins the Information Security Forum
Secunia has become a member of the Information Security Forum (ISF), an independent authority on best practice in the field of information risk management. Secunia thereby …
Data breach mistakes feared more than attackers
Seventy percent of compliance professionals feel that their organizations are well or very well prepared to fend off malicious hacker attacks, however, their confidence wanes …
Facebook users spammed through Events feature
Facebook scammers are sure to take advantage of every feature that the social network offers and that can be exploited to propagate their scams. The latest one employes the …
Top cybercrime weapon: Web exploit toolkits
HP identified a significant increase in the volume of organized cybercrime targeting data centers and networks, which can lead to financial and data loss. While there were …
Massive Epsilon breach affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, US Bank and others
Third-party firms that handle e-mail marketing for big companies and corporations have lately become a very desirable target for attackers, and the onslaught continues. The …
Automated security analysis
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