phishing
Mail-borne polymorphic malware soars
Approximately 72% of all email-borne malware in September could be characterized as aggressive strains of generic polymorphic malware, says Symantec in its September 2011 …
Clever phisher almost tricks PhishTank
PhishTank is an anti-phishing site run by the OpenDNS team and offers the possibility of submitting suspected phishing sites for community-based review. In short, other users …
Email marketing companies web accounts sending out malicious spam
The breach of the Atlanta-based Silverpop Systems back in December 2010 has resulted in the compromise of (some confirmed, some not) corporate mailing lists of over 100 big …
Fake Diablo beta invites hitting inboxes
Since the third installment of the popular Diablo game franchise has been announced in 2008, fans all over the world have been impatiently waiting for it to become available. …
Phishers up their game
An unusually well crafted phishing site posing as the site of a well-known software company has been recently spotted by Symantec. Pushing software products at extremely …
U.S. cities most vulnerable to online threats
Who is most at risk of fraudulent credit card charges, stolen identities, email security breaches or lost personal data? An AVG survey of online and mobile consumer behaviors …
Craigslist phishers warn about phishing
Scammers are targeting Craigslist users again – this time with a phishing page that tries to trick users into believing it’s legitimate by containing a warning …
Consumers keep falling into phishing traps
Whether in the form of fraudulent emails, falsified websites or deceptive text messages, cybercriminals are casting a wider phishing net in the hopes of obtaining personal …
US officials incessantly targeted with phishing emails
Remember the phishing attack against government officials and political activists that was disrupted by Google in June? Well, it’s far from over. The goal remains the …
China hit by almost half a million cyber attacks in 2010
China has been hit with almost half a million cyber attacks last year, claims a report by the country’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical …
“You look like you lost weight” Twitter scam
Direct Messages saying “You look like you lost weight in this video” are the latest approach used by cyber crooks to harvest Twitter login credentials, warns …
Spear-phishing and crimeware assembling marked second half of 2010
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports that the development of crimeware surged in the half-year period ending in December, 2010 with one data contributor registering …