Protection against malicious URLs and attachments
Invincea announced the availability of a greatly expanded product suite to address emerging vectors of attacks against users. Building off of its approach to breach prevention …
Researchers break video CAPTCHAs, offer solutions
After creating the “Decaptcha” software to solve audio CAPTCHAs, Standford University’s researchers modified it and turned it against text and, quite …
Facebook Gold Membership Status scam hits users
A bizarre email purportedly sent by Facebook has been hitting inboxes around the world and trying to convince the recipients that they have been awarded a “100% Gold …
Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing
The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake …
Romney defeats Gingrich in US spam primaries
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who’s leading polls in the race to become the Republican Party’s nominee for the US presidency, is also the favorite …
The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits
There’s been a significant growth in cybercrime, via sophisticated targeted attacks and social media scams, as well as a rise in malicious email attachments, despite a …
Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware
With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company …
Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs
Beware of bogus FedEx emails asking you to review a shipment notification – the attached Fedex_Invoice.exe is actually a downloader Trojan that opens you computer to …
Unique Web malware hosts increase
The proper security tools can prevent infection or stop outbreaks, mitigate or reduce losses from malicious events, and even decrease legal liability. These products can also …
Tax-themed spam delivers malware
The US Internal Revenue Service kicked off the 2012 tax filing season on January 4, and malware peddlers haven’t waited much to begin targeting users with tax-themed …
McAfee closes spam-spewing hole in its anti-malware service
McAfee has patched a vulnerability in its SaaS for Total Protection hosted anti-malware service that seems to have been misused by spammers to make users’ computers spew …
Threat incidents and security wins in 2011
Having spent much of the year battling data breaches that led to huge information and financial loss, the security industry was likely relieved to see 2011 come to a close. In …
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