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DHL Express spam campaign leads to fake AV

A new spam campaign impersonating the popular mail service DHL Express is currently underway, warn Bkis researchers. The email in question looks like this: Once the user …

Conde Nast scammed out of $8 million with single spear phishing email

Conde Nast – the company that publishes popular magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired, Vanity Fair, and many others – has been nearly defrauded …

Phishing scam offers fake Adobe Reader upgrade

Spam campaigns that target Adobe users are rather common, but there are always some users that haven’t heard about them and fall for the scam that offers them a fake …

“Hey, I just made a photoshop of you” Facebook scam

A new Facebook scam that is spreading via Facebook Chat messages is luring people in with promises of a Photoshopped image of themselves. “hey, i just made a photoshop …

Facebook battles likejacking scammers

Facebook and its users have been plagued for a while now by a seemingly never ending steady stream of scams, among which are those that hijack users’ “likes” …

Cybercriminals and their favorite baits

According to PandaLabs research, 25 percent of sites used video and multimedia content as bait; 21.63 percent referred to installers or program updates; 16.53 percent claimed …

Social media threats and targeted attacks

In the video below, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, the Head of Online Threats Lab at BitDefender, talks about the new breed of social media threats and sophisticated targeted …

WoW phishing email threatens with account termination

World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …

Japan leakage analysis emails with malicious XLS attachments

Japan’s seemingly unending series of misfortunes has so far generated a vast variety of online scams. The latest one includes spam emails containing Excel attachments …

Things to watch out for during tax season

Most people look forward to their refunds to pay for a nice vacation or pay off some debt. But when filing your taxes online, there are a number of ways you can lose that …

Facebook survey scam with a Firefox twist

Facebook survey scammers rarely deviate from the well-beaten path that includes luring the users in with shocking content or promises of seeing who views their profile, making …

Japanese tsunami videos lead to malware

A new Japanese disaster themed campaign is doing the rounds of inboxes. The e-mails supposedly offer links to videos about “The village that escaped the tsunami”, …

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