How cybercriminals scam consumers during the holiday season
McAfee announced its annual “12 Scams of the Holidays” list, which includes the most popular ways cybercriminals scam consumers during the holiday season as they …
Darkhotel espionage campaign targets corporate executives traveling abroad
Kaspersky Lab researched the Darkhotel espionage campaign, which has lurked in the shadows for at least four years while stealing sensitive data from selected corporate …
Fake malware-laden Amazon emails target UK, US shoppers
As the holiday season slowly approaches, and users increasingly turn to the Internet to do their holiday shopping before the seasonal madness begins, cyber crooks are trying …
The psychology of Facebook scam victims
A two-year study of over 850,000 Facebook scams by antivirus software provider Bitdefender has revealed that scammers have infected millions of users with the same repackaged …
Fake “Online Ebola Alert Tool” delivers Trojan, unwanted apps
Cyber scammers continue to take advantage of the fear and apprehension surrounding the proliferation of the Ebola virus. While Ebola-themed online hoaxes are nothing new, …
Ebola-themed emails deliver malware, exploit Sandworm vulnerability
US CERT has recently issued a warning about malware-delivery campaigns using users’ fear of the Ebola virus and its spreading as a bait. One of the most prolific …
Delivering malicious Android apps hidden in image files
Researchers have found a way to deliver a malicious app to Android users by hiding it into what seems to be an encrypted image file, which is then delivered via a legitimate, …
China executes MITM attack against iCloud and Microsoft account holders
China-based Internet users are in danger of getting their iCloud and Windows Live accounts hijacked and all the information in them slurped up by the Chinese authorities, web …
Beware of Ebola-themed phishing, malware campaigns and hoaxes
US-CERT released an advisory warning users about email scams and cyber campaigns using the Ebola virus disease as a theme. “Phishing emails may contain links that direct …
Tips for mitigating the financial impact of identity theft
With a number of large retailers and banks reporting massive data security breaches in the last year, leaving hundreds of millions of consumers’ personal information …
Malicious YouTube ads lead to exploits, ransomware
In the last few months, Trend Micro researchers have been following a malvertising campaign that ended up affecting almost exclusively US users at the beat of more than …
Emma Watson leaked Facebook video delivers Trojans
A new scam is taking advantage of Emma Watson’s growing popularity and using the Harry Potter star as bait to spread malware on Facebook, warns antivirus solutions …
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