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Facebook users targeted with OS aware fake AV attack

Fake AV peddlers have begun using Facebook to drive traffic to the malicious site that tries to trick users into believing their computer is infected. With subject lines like …

Romanian president declared dead by e-mail scam

BitDefender discovered a spam wave using the Romanian president’s image to help spread malware. The unsolicited e-mail relies on a classic combination of social …

Fake YouTube notifications doing rounds

YouTube users are targeted with notifications supposedly sent by YouTube administrators and containing links to Canadian pharmacy sites, warns BitDefender. With “YouTube …

Fake Epsilon breach warning tricks users

Among the most annoying things you can find online are pages that pretend to offer or try to push a service in order to make money by simply referring the user to another …

How banks use Twitter to combat fraud

With phishing attacks hurting the credibility of email communications, forward thinking banks are turning to social media as the best channel to warn customers of scams and …

Comodo Brazil breached, sensitive data leaked

The recent spate of attacks against Sony’s various assets has probably made a lot of companies thank their lucky stars that they aren’t the ones who have been …

Sony online store hacked and user information published

It seems that hacking Sony’s assets has become a communal game in the hacker underground. Since the PSN hack, hardly a week went by without a hacker notifying the public …

Spammers establish their own fake URL-shortening services

For the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection, according to Symantec. This new spamming …

40% of IT staff could wreak havoc to your network

A survey showed that 40% of IT staff admit that they could hold their employers hostage – even after they’ve left for other employment – by making it …

Programmer sentenced for accessing ATMs using malicious code

A former Bank of America (BOA) computer programmer was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for unauthorized access to the financial institution’s protected …

The progress of IT threats in 2010

Cyber criminals have capitalized on the recent growth in popularity of the Android mobile platform. Based on the number of new mobile malware signatures detected during this …

Stolen credit card numbers advertised via Twitter

You would expect online criminals to want to keep a low profile and restrict their attempts of selling stolen wares to shady online criminal forums, but every once in a while …

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