How fraudsters are disguising PCs to fool device fingerprinting
Cybercriminals know that financial and ecommerce providers often use fraud detection systems that monitor for anomalous transactions and behaviors. In order to bypass these …
EURO 2012 lottery scams targets users
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship kicks off in Poland on Friday, and scammers are trying to trick football fans into thinking the organizers have selected them as …
Most trusted universities for online activity
After analyzing online transactions such as credit applications and e-commerce purchases, iovation found the University of California at San Francisco to be the university …
Gamers increasingly under attack
In this video, Christopher Boyd, Senior Threat Researcher at GFI Software, talks about how scammers increasingly target gamers and gaming databases because of valuable …
Olympics fans targeted with lottery scam
An email purportedly coming from the promotion manager of the London 2012 Olympics has been hitting inboxes, trying to scam recipients into sending personal information and …
Trojan spyware promoted as Steam keygen
Scouring the Web for “legitimate” key generators, or keygens, is a risky business at the best of times. We make it a point that whoever the source is must have …
Facebook Timeline Remover is still alive
You may have seen reports of a Facebook themed “remove my timeline” scam, where users are asked to install a browser extension to roll Facebook back to the way it …
Scammers working harder to fool consumers
The number of unique phishing reports submitted to the APWG rose substantially from early fall through the end of the year, while cybercrime gangs were apparently forced to …
RuFraud scammers caught and fined
Cyber scammers are still too rarely brought to justice and/or made to pay back the stolen money to the users they have swindled, so any news of that happening is extremely …
Beware of fake Facebook account cancellation emails
Fake account cancellation emails are targeting Facebook users and trying to get them infected with information-stealing malware, warns Sophos. The email looks pretty …
Trojan stealing money in German online banking scam
Trusteer came across a complex new criminal scheme involving the Tatanga Trojan that conducts an elaborate Man in the Browser (MitB) attack to bypass SMS based transaction …
Fake BBC website serves malware and a scam
Online scammers and malware peddlers know that the more afraid and desperate their targets are, the more likely it is that they will fall for their tactics, so their repeated …
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