Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Photo Notification Email Messages on January 13, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32415 First Published: 2014 January 14 15:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain photographs for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Purchase Order Invoice Request Email Messages on January 7, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32360 First Published: 2014 January 7 21:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a purchase order invoice request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Invoice Document Confirmation Email Messages on December 9, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 32099 First Published: 2013 December 10 14:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice document confirmation notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Financial Document Email Messages on December 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31994 First Published: 2013 December 3 14:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Quotation Notification Email Messages on November 28, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31940 First Published: 2013 December 2 23:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product quotation notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Tax Payment Failure Notification Email Messages on November 11, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31722 First Published: 2013 November 12 14:35 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a tax payment failure notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Email Messages with Malicious Attachments on October 23, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31479 First Published: 2013 October 24 14:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment to view the file. However,...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Banking Information Form Email Messages on October 23, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31441 First Published: 2013 October 23 16:39 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claims to contain bank information for the recipient. The email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachme...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Pricing Request Email Messages on October 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31120 First Published: 2013 October 4 13:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product pricing request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient t...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Notice Email Messages on September 30, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31026 First Published: 2013 September 30 19:21 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain payment information for the recipient. The text in the message body attempts to persuade the recipient to op...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Malicious Attachment Email Messages on September 16, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30835 First Published: 2013 September 17 15:43 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack

Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare’s San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes later, more messages appeared, as security researchers and others began looking into the situation and realized that someone may have...

Syrian Electronic Army Hack Results in Compromise of Domain Data For NY Times, Twitter

The Syrian Electronic Army, a group known for attacking high-profile media sites in the last year or so, has in the last few hours compromised the domain information for a large number of sites, including the New York Times home page and some of Twitter’s domains. Security researchers say that th...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Notice Email Messages on August 27, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30518 First Published: 2013 August 27 18:28 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank payment notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Purchase Order Email Messages on August 25, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30507 First Published: 2013 August 26 12:40 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product purchase order for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Transfer Notification Email Messages on August 24, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30505 First Published: 2013 August 26 12:25 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank payment transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Privacy Policy Protections Agreement Email Messages on July 30, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30256 First Published: 2013 July 30 14:44 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain a new security policy agreement for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Gemstone and Jewelry Sales Email Messages on July 4, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29958 First Published: 2013 July 5 13:25 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a gemstone and jewelry sales attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Order Catalog Email Messages on June 28, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29831 First Published: 2013 June 29 08:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product order catalog attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Confidential Business Request Email Messages on June 27, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29834 First Published: 2013 June 28 14:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a confidential business request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...