Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Invoice Statement Attachment Email Messages on September 19, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30888 First Published: 2013 September 19 18:58 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice statement for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convin...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Picture Delivery Email Messages on June 4, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 30864 First Published: 2013 September 18 18:37 GMT Last Updated: 2014 June 5 12:52 GMT Version: 9 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a photo message for the recipient. The text in the email message attempt...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Email Messages with Malicious Attachments on September 12, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30763 First Published: 2013 September 12 15:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that contain a malicious attachment. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment and...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Order Request Email Messages September 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30654 First Published: 2013 September 4 19:17 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product order request for the recipient. The text in the message body attempts to persuade the recipient to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Shipping Notification Email Messages on December 4, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30628 First Published: 2013 September 3 14:54 GMT Last Updated: 2013 December 5 15:04 GMT Version: 24 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a shipping notification for the recipient. The text in the email...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Quotation Email Messages on August 4, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30313 First Published: 2013 August 5 12:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product quotation for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open...

Japanese Poker champion charged for distributing Android malware

Famous poker player 'Masaaki Kagawa' who won about $1.5 million in poker tournaments has been arrested by Japanese authorities for allegedly distributing Android malware. According to Symantec, He is just one of nine men arrested for distributing spam that included emails with links to Android...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Financial Document Sharing Email Messages on July 23, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30209 First Published: 2013 July 24 19:04 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain financial documents for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

CVE-2012-6581

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on reading keys in the product's keyring, and trigger outbound e-mail messages signed by an arbitrary stored secret key, by leveraging a UI e-mail...

Daily Dot News portal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army with phishing attack

Pro-Assad hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the online news portal "Daily Dot" and deleted an article with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. SEA hackers gave an advance warning to Daily Dot editorial team via twitter, said "Dear @dailydot, please remo...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Update Notification Email Messages on July 14, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30080 First Published: 2013 July 16 15:00 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment update notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

BlackBerry allows Indian government to Intercept emails and Chats

In 2010 the Indian authorities threatened to shut down BlackBerry's infrastructure unless it agreed to comply with lawful access requirements providing the government a way to intercept messages in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The long time dispute between the Indian government and...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Malicious Video Attachment Email Messages on July 8, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29977 First Published: 2013 July 9 15:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a video attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Friendship Email Messages on July 8, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29970 First Published: 2013 July 8 15:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a friendship message for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Craft Item Sales Solicitation Email Messages on July 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29947 First Published: 2013 July 5 13:20 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Spanish-language spam email messages that claim to contain a craft items presentation for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to persuade...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Account Download Attachment Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29932 First Published: 2013 July 3 12:26 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain an account download attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convin...

Passwords, Email, Usernames Accessed in Ubisoft Hack

The video game publishing company Ubisoft is urging its users to create new passwords after announcing late last week on a support forum that attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of the company’s websites to gain unauthorized access to some of their online systems. The attackers compromised...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Personal Photo Sharing Email Messages on July 1, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29870 First Published: 2013 July 1 17:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain photos for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Form Attachment Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29803 First Published: 2013 June 26 17:25 GMT Last Updated: 2013 July 2 16:05 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment form notification for the recipient. The text in th...

Apple Phishing Scams on the Rise

Apple has one of the more gilded consumer brands and the company spends a lot of time and money to keep it that way. Consumers love Apple. Scammers and attackers do too, though, and security researchers in recent months have seen a major spike in the volume of phishing emails abusing Apple’s bran...