Are You 'Siri-less'? Security Firm Urges Closer Look at Popular Personal Assistant App

The Finland-based security firm F-Secure is warning companies to beware of Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant app that last month was banned by IBM for security purposes. The potential for Siri-based data disclosures was cited at a Helsinki press conference, in which F-Secure’s vice...

FBI Warns Users of New 'Reveton' Scareware Scam

The FBI is warning consumers about a new scam that’s using a piece of malware called Citadel to redirect users to a scam site that installs scareware on their machines and demands a $100 payment to unlock them. The twist in this scam is that it uses the threat of prosecution by the Department of...

DNSChanger Lingers: 330k Systems Still Infected, 77,000 In The U.S.

The FBI said that there are still more than 330,000 computers believed to be infected with the DNSChanger malware, with just weeks to go before a court order to cut off their ability to communicate with the rest of the Internet. Fully 77,000 are located in the U.S., according to data provided to...

May 2012 – Mythic/Kickstarter

‘Mythic: Stories of Gods and Men’ was yanked from the increasingly popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, earlier this year after it became apparent that the game was, in actuality, a sham. Mythic touted itself as an action/strategy based role playing game and managed to raise $4,739 from 83...

Spammers Targeting Pinterest Using Point-And-Click Tools

Spammers have jumped on the latest social media craze: the photo sharing site Pinterest. And they’re being helped out by new, automated spam toolkits designed to exploit the fast growing new social network. As Threatpost has reported, spammers have figured out ways to use Pinterest to drive traff...

Kickstarter Data Breach Publishes 70,000 Startup Ideas

An application programming interface API error on the popular Kickstarter crowdfunding website exposed the plans and descriptions of more than 70,000 yet-to-be launched projects. The API bug exposed project descriptions, goals, durations, rewards, videos, images, locations, categories, and...

Travelers Cautioned When Using Hotel Internet Connections Abroad

Travelers abroad should be on alert for malware masquerading as a software update when they attempt to connect to the Internet from their hotel rooms. A warning issued by the Internet Crime Complaint Center says the FBI and other government agencies recently noticed malware that targets guests...

Scam Video Game Startup Yanked From Kickstarter After Raising Thousands

A project soliciting funds for a new video game to compete with the likes of World of Warcraft and Skyrim has been pulled from the crowd funding website Kickstarter after it became clear that the proposal was a sham. Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men raised $4,739 from 83 backers before it was...

Scareware/MacDefender

2011 MacDefender popped up in mid-2011. It mimicked the widely deployed and largely successful scareware scams that have been owning Windows machines for years. The phishing scam worked by redirecting Mac-users from legitimate websites to fake ones that attempted to convince users that their...

Authorities Renew Campaign to Disinfect Computers Before July 9

With a deadline to pull surrogate servers extended, the FBI has launched a new campaign to prevent up to 350,000 computer users from losing Internet access this summer – including those tied to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies like NASA. Over the weekend, news media outlets began...

Malware Campaign Extorts Users with SOPA Threats

A new scareware-ransomware hybrid attempts to convince users they are being sued in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and offers to remedy the problem if users purchase a fake antivirus solution. The malware claims to have detected illegal torrent files on the computer and offers to...

Deceptive In-App Ads Hit Users of Draw Something

I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an...

Android Malware as Beware of Chinese called "The Roar of the Pharaoh"

Android Malware as Chinese game "The Roar of the Pharaoh" Security researchers have spotted a bogus Chinese game, that's actually a trojan horse gathering sensitive information from infected devices, next to sending premium-rate SMS messages. It is Chinese game that is original with its rights bu...

Facebook 'Like' Scam Driven by Malicious Chrome Extension

A Kaspersky Lab researcher has discovered a Brazilian social engineering campaign that attempts to trick Facebook users into installing a malicious plug-in hosted on Google’s Chrome Web Store. The Facebook scam-page solicits victims by promising to teach them how to “remove the virus from their...

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia 8 Men suspected of being involved in the Carberp phishing scam have been arrested in Russia. The men were arrested after a joint investigation by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB. According to the MVD,...

Trojan Dropper Uses Valid Certificate Issued For Swiss Company

A pair of trojan droppers affiliated with a pay-per-click scam are using valid digital signatures from a certificate that was issued for a Swiss company, according to a report on Securelist. Between December 2011 and March 7, 2012, the Kaspersky Security Network has detected around 5,000 instance...

Groupon Piggyback Site Offers $500 Voucher, Charges Users for Allegedly 'Free' Trial Offers

A domain registered two days ago as groupon500.com, which claims to offer a $500 voucher toward Groupon or its primary competitor, LivingSocial, is actually registering users for ‘free’ trial offers that aren’t free at all. The best part, however, is that everything about this scam is perfectly...

Stratfor Subscribers Experience Phishing Attempts

Cybercriminals continue targeting customers of Stratfor, the well-known, Texas-based security and policy think-tank hacked by Anonymous on Christmas, according to a TechNet report. Social engineers have been sending malicious and fraudulent emails to Strafor subscribers since their customer...

Sites Hosted by Hacking Victim Dreamhost Redirected To Scam Page

A report from Web security firm zScaler finds that Web pages hosted by the firm Dreamhost are being redirected to a scam Web site in Russia following a hack of the company’s servers last month. In a blog post, zScaler Senior Security Researcher Julien Sobrier reports that his firm, which secures...

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud The beauty of the Internet is that you can make a truckload of money out here. Yes, you really could quit your full time job if you work hard.The bad news is most people either don't want to work at it, or they buy into some scam that causes them to waste...