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Cryptowall makes a comeback via malicious help files

A new spam wave has hit hundreds of mailboxes with malicious .chm attachments to spread the infamous Cryptowall ransomware. Cryptowall is an advanced version of Cryptolocker, …

Banking Trojan Dyreza sends 30,000 malicious emails in one day

A massive spam wave is installing banking Trojan Dyreza on tens of thousands of computers to steal sensitive financial data from unsuspecting customers, warns Bitdefender. …

Active spam campaign leads to sophisticated PayPal phishing sites

PayPal-themed phishing campaigns are nothing new, but they are more and more legitimate-looking as time goes by. Researchers with OpenDNS Labs have spotted one such campaign …

Swiss users inundated with malware-laden spam

Swiss users are being heavily targeted by a number of spam campaigns delivering the Tiny Banker (TinBa or Busy) e-banking Trojan. Starting with Tuesday, the spammy emails seem …

Supposedly clean Office documents download malware

Bitdefender is warning Microsoft Office users against the emergence of a new spam campaign that is looking to trick antispam filters in order to allow spam to pass freely into …

WhatsApp sees increasing complexity of spam campaigns

Over the past few months, AdaptiveMobile has tracked an increase of spam complexity on messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, in the United States, Europe and India, and expects …

Dridex-laden spam emails targeting First World bank users

Dridex, a relatively new and improved version of the infamous Cridex/Feodo banking Trojan, is being widely disseminated via email spam campaigns. First spotted in July 2014, …

246 percent spike in Apple-themed phishing scams

Phishing scams targeting Apple users saw a dramatic upswing in Q3 of this year. Compared to Q1 2014, Apple users faced a 246% increase in the attacks that masquerade as a …

Spammers spreading new Wolf of Wall Street scam

Millions of penny stock spam emails have been flooding inboxes, spreading a new “Wolf of Wall Street’ scam and inflating the stock values of a mineral deposit …

How does spam affect your business?

68% of organizations have seen their day-to-day business operations severely disrupted or completely stopped as a result of at least one spam-related incident in the last year …

UK employees targeted with fake policy violation emails

A new cyber-crime attack has been tricking SMB employees in the UK into downloading Trojans by accusing them of violating company policy. The spam wave started to accelerate …

Beware of fake “Gmail suspicious login” warnings

Malicious emails impersonating Gmail Account Services have been spotted hitting inboxes around the world, falsely claiming that the users’ Gmail account has been logged …

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