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A new spam wave has hit hundreds of mailboxes with malicious .chm attachments to spread the infamous Cryptowall ransomware. Cryptowall is an advanced version of Cryptolocker, …

Security researchers working at OpenDNS’ Security Labs have developed NLPRank, a new system that helps detect – quickly and relatively accurately – phishing …

Google has become pretty swift at finding and removing fake and malicious apps from its Google Play store, but there is one part of it where malware peddlers still seem to …

AdaptiveMobile uncovered one of the single largest messaging-initiated mobile malware outbreaks. The malware, dubbed Gazon, which uses victims’ mobile phone contacts to …

A clever phishing scheme has been spotted targeting users who have had their iPad or iPhone stolen, leading researchers to believe that it has been set up by a criminal group …

A fake LogMeIn-themed email has been hitting inboxes of users around the world, trying to trick them into believing that they have somehow paid nearly a thousand dollars for a …

A fake website simulating that of popular Internet video streaming Netflix has been set up to harvest European users’ personal and payment card information, warns …

All Internet users have, at least once in their lives, seen the following “Account Suspended” page: That’s because it’s part and parcel of cPanel, one …

Offers for an app that can purportedly show you how you will look in 20 years have been recently popping up in Facebook users’ newsfeed and on their walls, occasionally …

Tax-themed phishing emails targeting CTOs of tech companies have been spotted by researchers at Talos, Cisco’s security intelligence and research group. The initial …

Cybercriminals are increasingly using persuasion techniques in order to manipulate employees to do things they normally wouldn’t, usually resulting in the loss of money …

The latest Facebook-themed phishing messages doing rounds are trying to trick users into believing they are “making copyright violations” on their Facebook page. …