scams

As predicted, Hurricane Irene-themed scams have begun spreading on Facebook. The one spotted by Trend Micro fraud analyst Karla Agregado lures users in by offering a chilling …

A slight variation of last week’s Facebook friend request spam email campaign has been spotted targeting the social network’s users, and this one employs a …

It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving …

“I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it,” says simply the email that is thought to have been the means of deploying the backdoor that …

An illegal key generator for the recently released latest version of the TrustPort Internet Security solution brings big trouble to unsuspecting users, warns BitDefender. …

After a rather long time, Facebook users are again seeing offers of “Free Facebook Credits!” on their News Feed. Those users who are not aware of the fact that …

61 percent of consumers click on links while online that take them to unexpected places, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks that can lead to identity theft, according to …

The penultimate movie in The Twilight Saga has not yet arrived to cinemas, but cyber scammers have decided on an even bigger attraction to lure Internet users into sharing …

A massive spam campaign taking the form of an email notifying the recipients of a bogus traffic ticket has been detected by a number of security companies. The email in …

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 …

The UPS name is once again being used to spread vast amounts of email-attached malware. The last week has seen an extraordinary increase – over 5.5 times the average …

With malware showing no signs of abating on social networks and continuous news of the privacy implications of sharing personal details through social media, it’s no …