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Scammers use Google AdWords, fake Windows BSOD to steal money from users
Faced with the infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), many unexperienced computer users’ first reaction is panic. If that screen contains a toll free number …
Android ransomware masquerades as Adult Player app, takes photo of victim
“A new mobile ransomware variant uses a clever new technique to push affected users to pay the asked-for ransom: it takes a photo of the user with the phone’s …
Cybercriminals are becoming more creative
The second quarter of 2015 was wrought with high profile vulnerabilities and hacks. Cybercriminals became more inventive in their attack methods to infiltrate and abuse …
Cybercriminals are preying on existing vulnerabilities to plan future attacks
Solutionary performed a broad analysis of the threat landscape, which unearthed several key findings. They identified several campaigns targeting the bash vulnerability during …
The arsenal of SMS scammers, spammers and fraudsters
Illicit commercial activity online has manifested into all things mobile. With revenue in the billions from mobile marketing, criminals are doing their best to harness the …
TeslaCrypt 2.0 makes it impossible to decrypt affected files
“Kaspersky Lab has detected curious behavior in a new threat from the TeslaCrypt ransomware encryptor family. In version 2.0 of the Trojan notorious for infecting …
Nigerian scammers are stealing millions from businesses
When someone mentions advanced fee or romance scams most people immediately associate them with Nigerian scammers. But there is another type of scam that these fraudsters …
The downfall of a major cybercrime ring exploiting banking Trojans
“A joint investigation team (JIT) consisting of investigators and judicial authorities from six different European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, has …
New password recovery scam hitting Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users
A simple yet ingenious scam is being used by scammers to compromise accounts of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users, Symantec researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski warns.“To …
Windows Live ID scam targets personal information
Kaspersky Lab experts are warning of a new scam that uses Windows Live ID as bait to catch personal information stored in user profiles on services like Xbox LIVE, Zune, …
Police dismantle gang of online fraudsters and romance scammers
The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were …
Card skimming gang stole 3M euros using ghost PoS terminals
French police supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have arrested 18 members of a criminal gang who were illegally using modified, ’ghost’ …
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