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PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes

PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with “Please confirm your identity” in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download …

3-and-a-half years sentence for PayPal thief

Accused of having broken into 303 eBay and PayPal accounts and of stealing over £180,000 in total from the legitimate owners of the accounts, a person from Nottingham has …

Mubarak advance-fee fraud scam

German-speaking Internet users are being targeted by a common scam with an unusual twist, warns Symantec. The well-known 419 (or advance-fee fraud) scam template has been …

New type of financial malware hijacks online banking sessions

A new type of financial malware has the ability to hijack customers’ online banking sessions in real time using their session ID tokens. OddJob, which is the name …

Cricket World Cup starts, scammers follow

The Cricket World Cup started on Saturday, and both the International Cricket Council and various security experts are issuing warnings to fans regarding likely cyber scams …

Chinese hackers behind espionage attacks hitting Western oil firms?

Hackers have targeted five international oil companies and have extracted sensitive corporate information about oil- and gas-field operations, project financing and bidding, …

Van Gogh Museum fan page hit by Facebook scammers

The Facebook page for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has been targeted by scammers. Messages were posted on the compromised page, including links to a version of the …

400,000 e-mail addresses stolen in Irish job website breach

Names and e-mail addresses of some 400,000 job seekers have been harvested by hackers who have breached the RecruitIreland.com site and its systems. The site has been taken …

1 in 3 EU Internet users infected by malware

The EU has been at the forefront in leveraging IT advancements. The region has a high Internet penetration rate and over two-thirds of the population uses Internet. However, …

Facebook survey scam toolkit lowers entry bar for scammers

If you have been wondering about the recent proliferation of survey scams on Facebook and thinking to yourself how is it possible that so many people to know how to develop …

Stalker targets Zuckerberg through Facebook

Facebook wouldn’t be so popular if it wasn’t so useful, easy to use and fun, but as with everything else in this world, there are downsides to its use – most …

US legislators targeted by identity thieves and account hijackers

Facebook accounts of four Missouri state representatives and one staffer have been compromised and sporting mortifying messages. The interviewed affected politicians – …

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