Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Job Opportunity Solicitation Email Messages on July 9, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29985 First Published: 2013 July 9 14:07 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a job opportunity solicitation for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Document Sharing Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29924 First Published: 2013 July 2 13:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain documents for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipient to open the link to...

Serious Smishing vulnerability reported in Samsung Galaxy S4

Serious security vulnerability was recently discovered on the Samsung flagship Galaxy S4 device, claiming that attackers can use it to silently send text messages. Qihoo 360 Technology, an antivirus company based in China, said that this particular vulnerability is related to the "cloud backup"...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Invoice Attachment Email Messages on June 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29751 First Published: 2013 June 24 12:27 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake LexisNexis Invoice Attachment Email Messages on June 21, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29750 First Published: 2013 June 24 11:50 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice attachment from LexisNexis for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Claims Invoice Email Messages on June 17, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29748 First Published: 2013 June 21 18:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake German Broadband Account Billing Service Email Messages on June 10, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29628 First Published: 2013 June 11 14:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a broadband account billing service message for the recipient. The text in the email message...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bill Payment Notification Email Messages on April 8, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 29611 First Published: 2013 June 10 13:36 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 10 14:04 GMT Version: 5 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment notification for the recipient. The text in the...

Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Westpac Secure Email Messages on March 13, 2013

Low Alert ID: 28593 First Published: 2013 March 14 20:25 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a secure message notification for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipient...

DNS Changer malware mastermind pleaded guilty

Remember the DNS Changer malware that infected at least four million computers in more than 100 countries, including 500,000 in the United States, with malicious software or malware ? Valeri Aleksejev, 32 years old from Estonia, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea, admitting his...

DNS Changer malware mastermind pleaded guilty

Remember the DNS Changer malware that infected at least four million computers in more than 100 countries, including 500,000 in the United States, with malicious software or malware ? Valeri Aleksejev, 32 years old from Estonia, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea, admitting his...

Yahoo Mail Breach Linked to Old WordPress Vulnerability

Researchers at Australia-based BitDefender say they’ve found how some Yahoo Mail accounts are being hijacked, and it leads back to “buggy” blog software Yahoo’s developers used. For about a month Yahoo Mail account holders have been falling for a scam in which they click on a short link that...

Phishing Attack Leads to Phony Google, Compromised Red Cross Sites

An apparent phishing scam involving fake Google and Red Cross websites is making the rounds according to security firm Sophos, which intercepted a spammy e-mail this morning that tries to send unsuspecting users to less than genuine versions of those sites. An email with the subject line, “Re:...

Attackers Using Fake Chrome Updates to Lure Victims

Google patched nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday and a day later attackers have begun circulating fake Google Chrome updates that actually are part of a scam related to the Zeus botnet and is designed to steal online banking credentials, among other things. Attackers...

Ransomware Extortion Scam Locks Machines, Demands Payment

The latest ransomware scam is locking down infected machines and displaying localized webpages warning users that their computer contains “banned material” and won’t be unlocked until a fine is paid, according to a report from McAfee’s Naganathan Jawahar. The Trojan displays a warning, purportedl...

Gameover Zeus Variant Sends Malicious Email Via Cutwail Botnet

The crew responsible for operating the Gameover variant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan is soliciting the enormous Cutwail botnet’s spamming capacity as an engine to fire off millions of malicious emails that seemingly originate from a number of recognizable U.S. banks. The fraudulent emails...

Spam Text message offers gift card to Target

A popular scam that always seems to pop up around the holiday shopping season has once again resurfaced.Have you gotten a text message promising a free gift card? All you have to do is click on a link? However, it was a scam. Case : A text message has been popping up on Central New Yorkers' phone...

Fake Facebook Alert Emails Link to Black Hole Sites

Attackers are sending spoofed “pending notification” emails to Facebook users, claiming that the recipients overlooked some alert on the world’s largest social network, and providing them with a link that supposedly leads to the allegedly neglected content but which, in reality, funnels users to ...

Alert : Phishing scam targeting CloudFlare Customers

.jpg From Yesterday CloudFlare Security team receiving various reports of a Phishing Scam, which is targeting customers by saying that "you have exceeded bandwidth". In a blog post, CloudFlare said, "Some CloudFlare customers are currently being targeted with a phishing email that was not sent by...