cybercriminals
iPad 2 and $1,000 gift cards offered by scammers
Typosquatting is often-used tool by online scammers who try to take advantage of users looking for legitimate pages, and a recently spotted spam campaign is employing that …
Card info of 1m Restaurant Depot customers stolen in breach
Customers of US foodservice wholesaler Restaurant Depot and “cash and carry” chain Jetro have begun receiving letters warning them about the possibility of their …
2,000 live typosquatted domains discovered
Customers of major high-street brands such as Argos, Debenhams, and John Lewis are falling victim to cybercriminals that target mistyped web addresses, a technique known as …
Spam campaign bypasses Gmail filters, employs Google Docs
Every now and then, online crooks and spammers use Google Docs to host phishing forms or documents with embedded malicious links. One such spam campaign is currently …
SMS Privato Spy: Another piece of bogus software for sale
Every so often, a new piece of non-existent software gets advertised by scammers that are eager to part users with their hard earned cash. The latest one to be spotted is …
2012 network security trends
Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently …
Multimillion credit card data theft
Four Romanian nationals were charged for their alleged participation in an international multimillion dollar scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from …
Six arrested for phishing scam targeting students
Four men and two women suspected of having taken part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted hundreds of UK students were arrested by the Met’s Police Central …
Surge in pre-Christmas malware
GFI Software released its report on the most prevalent threat detections for the previous month. Noteworthy threats in November 2011 included a new Facebook worm; the return …
Fake Verizon notification carries malware
A sneaky spam email campaign aiming to infect users with a banking Trojan is currently underway and is targeting mobile carrier customers, warns Microsoft. The email purports …
Proactive detection of cyber security incidents
ENISA today launched a report which identifies 16 shortcomings in detection of network security incidents. The report reveals that not all available tools are used widely …
U.S. wakes up to cybercrime threat
Businesses in the U.S. are increasingly waking up to the threat of cyber crime according to the latest Lloyd’s Risk Index, but evidence shows the problem of cyber crime …