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 …
State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams
AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …
Spammers are always thinking up new tricks
The percentage of spam in email traffic in May averaged 69.8 per cent – 1.3 percentage points less than the previous month. May saw numerous mass mailings for schools …
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