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Farm Town players targeted by malvertisements?

Players of the popular Facebook game application Farm Town are warned not to fall for the fake security warnings claiming that the user is infected by a virus that pop up …

Cash extortion scheme targets BitTorrent users

BitTorrent users are targeted by an unprecedented extortion campaign that threatens them with legal action for copyright infringement, unless the pay a $400 …

WordPress hacked, affected blogs point to malware site

A throng of blogs have been compromised and are pointing readers to a malicious website containing scripts that lead to a Trojan that drops and executes other malicious files. …

Trojan disguised as Windows Mobile game

A “trojanized” pirated version of a 3D first-person shooter game for the Windows mobile platform found its way to some Windows Mobile freeware download sites and …

The botnet economy

It is somewhat difficult for us – the potential victims – to appreciate the effectiveness of the various botnets and to aknowledge that the botnet masters have …

XBox gamers, beware!

Various fake websites that purport to be hosting a XBox Live application have been detected by Sunbelt, but are actually intent on making you download and run a password …

Bank employee accused of stealing from “infected” ATMs

An employee of the Bank of America that was in charge of designing and maintaining the the bank’s computer system and its ATMs, was charged of committing computer fraud. …

Q&A: Cyber warfare

Geoff Harris is the President of the UK Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) a not-for-profit, international organization of information security …

Does single sign-on have a future?

Single sign-on has been for a while now lodged into many IT minds as a potential ideal solution for the issue of the forever-piling sign-in credentials. As people are …

Malicious shortened URLs on IM

Shortened URLs are not just for Twitter – their small footprint also lends itself beautifully to Instant Messaging. Unfortunately, even cybercriminals are now privy to …

Fake AV avatars from a single file

XP Antispyware 2010, Antivirus XP 2010, XP Guardian 2010 – XP Guardian, XP Defender 2010, XP Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2010, XP Internet Security, XP Internet Security …

Is phone phishing making a comeback?

By now, pretty much everyone knows that when one receives an email purportedly coming from a bank or a financial institution, extreme caution and distrust is in order. We have …

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