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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”, …

ATM thieves in San Francisco have adopted an unusual and very low-tech way of getting their hands on some money. According to The SF Examiner, they simply glue down the …

Online scams taking advantage of the ongoing Japanese tragedy are popping up daily. The latest one spotted is perpetuated on YouTube, where users go to search for videos that …

Unfortunately many cyber crooks are exploiting the tragedy in Japan to get money for unsuspecting surfers. Here are tips from Enigma Software to make sure you don’t …

The earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor explosion situation in Japan is currently being exploited by cyber scammers in a great variety of ways, but among the things that I …

As the Japanese tragedy unfolds, so do the various online scams taking advantage of people’s interest in the situation. We have already witnessed black hat SEO poisoning …

It didn’t take long for malware pushers to take advantage of Internet users’ hunger for news and videos from Japan after it was hit today by the most powerful …

Working with cloud-based services significantly improves economies of scale – for cybercriminals too, according to Commtouch. Phishers are already benefiting from free …

New figures show that banking industry initiatives are successfully keeping the fraudsters away from customers’ cards and bank accounts. Fraud losses on UK cards, …

At first glance, a 19-year-old might seem like an unlikely criminal. A school’s salutatorian (a student that has the second-highest marks at graduation) with a 4.54 …

Malware authors have begun to set their sights on mobile device users, as witnessed by the latest Trojans made for Android-running devices, on official and unofficial online …

Charlie Sheen’s downward spiral is unfolding right under the public’s eye and has spurred many scammers to take advantage of the users’ interest in the …