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Phishers increasingly target brands

The APWG is reporting in its latest Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use study that an increasing number of brands and their users have been targeted by …

Fake “new voicemail” notification targets Android WhatsApp users

Malware peddlers have decided to bank on the popularity of the WhatsApp cross-platform IM app for smartphones in order to get users to install malicious apps on their devices, …

Aggressive ransomware scam redirects to child porn

Getting denounced for viewing or owning child pornography is a huge deal in most Western world countries, so it’s no wonder that ransomware peddlers are using that …

Medical identity theft affects 1.84 million U.S. victims

Medical identity theft is a national healthcare issue with life-threatening and hefty financial consequences. According to the 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft conducted …

JollyBot SMS Trojan offered for use to low-level crooks via affiliate network

The current cybercrime market is all about Cybercrime-as-a-Service – knowledgeable individuals focus on their core competencies to offer services to those who have not …

Bogus iPhone 5C giveaway hits Facebook users

The long awaited unveiling of the upcoming iPhone 5S and 5C has provided the perfect lure for Facebook scammers. A message showing a picture of multicolored iPhones 5C and …

Android scareware delivered via spoofed email notices

A spam campaign targeting Android and PC users simultaneously has been recently spotted by FireEye researchers. The attacks starts with spoofed emails made to look like a …

Fake emails saying US is bombing Syria lead to malware

Two distinct spam campaigns taking advantage of the current political situation in Syria have been spotted by Symantec and Kaspersky Lab researchers. The first one consists of …

Fake Facebook “Pages you might like” emails deliver malware

Fake Facebook emails urging users to review some Pages they might like are hitting inboxes around the world, warns ThreatTrack. Sporting “Hi [name], here are some Pages …

NetTraveler APT group is back, adds watering hole attacks to its arsenal

The “Red Star” APT group employing the NetTraveler malware family is still active, but has changed its modus operandi. Its targets remain the same: government …

Fraud and ATM attacks hit Germany hard

FICO released new data showing the high rate of card-not-present (CNP) fraud on Germany’s credit cards in 2012, showing that 70 percent of the 2012 fraud on …

Banking Trojans dominate malware in e-mail traffic

The percentage of spam in email traffic in July was up only 0.1 percentage points and averaged at 71.2 per cent, according to Kaspersky Lab. Malicious attachments were found …

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