Phishers Bait City Workers in Seattle With Phony Speeding Tickets

Hundreds of government employees in Seattle, Washington received fraudulent emails yesterday that appeared to be traffic violation notifications but were, in fact, vehicles for infection by malicious software. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center and the Seattle Police Department,...

Carberp Trojan Commits Financial Fraud on Facebook

A new iteration of the Carberp trojan is targeting Facebook users, but unlike most Facebook attacks that attempt to pinch login credentials, this one is trying to steal money by fooling users into handing over an e-cash voucher. According to a report from Trusteer’s Amit Klein, the Carberp trojan...

Typosquatting Sites Among The Web's Most Popular, Company Finds

More and more fraudulent sites have wrestled their way onto Alexa’s global top 250 ranking list thanks to typosquatting, a technique that attackers use to deceive users into clicking into the wrong website. According to security firm Websense, users who have fat-fingered Twitter’s Web address are...

New Clickjacking Scam Uses Facebook, Javascript, Our Primate Brain To Spread

A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers. Writing on the Securelist blog, Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby said that the scam was circulating among Facebo...

Facebook Scam : Selena Gomez Caught On Leaked Tape

Facebook Scam : Selena Gomez Caught On Leaked Tape Another Facebook Scam is circulating with the headline "Selena Gomez Caught On Leaked Tape" and Message "you will lost your all respect for Selena Gomez after watching this". By Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page designed...

USAA Phishing Scam and Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of public reports of an active spear-phishing attack via email messages directed at United Services Automobile Association USAA members. These messages contain the subject line "Deposit Posted" and contain a randomly generated four-digit number placed in the USAA security zone...

FTC Gives Refunds to Rogue Antivirus Victims

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is sending reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people victimized by a rogue antivirus scam. According to the FTC, the checks are the result of the settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint the FTC filed in 2008. As part of the...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

Discovered the biggest Facebook phishing in French

Discovered the biggest Facebook phishing in French Two Days before we publish that Geeks at Security Web-Center Found 25 Facebook phishing sites. Security Web-Center found another biggest Facebook phishing site in French which steal more then 5000 usernames and passwords, using the fake domain...

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Manila AT &T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Police in the Philippines working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested four people over a premium-line phone scam that targeted customers of the American telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based...

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Police in the Philippines working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested four people over a premium-line phone scam that targeted customers of the American telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based...

Exposing 25 Facebook phishing websites

Exposing 25 Facebook phishing websites Geeks at Security Web-Center Found 25 Facebook and list them. Sometimes spammers create fake pages that look like the Facebook login page. When you enter your email and password on one of these pages, the spammer records your information and keeps it. This i...

Facebook User Error Behind Porn, Mutilation Spam

A campaign of explicit spam on Facebook this week has been linked to a relatively obscure exploit method known as self-inflicted JavaScript injection and not malicious code running on Facebook’s massive network, an independent analysis has shown. The campaign, in which violent and pornographic...

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down A gang of internet 'cyber bandits' who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam have been arrested following a joint investigation by the FBI and Nasa. Six men are in custody i...

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down A gang of internet 'cyber bandits' who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam have been arrested following a joint investigation by the FBI and Nasa. Six men are in custody i...

Steve Jobs Scams Continue

There is another Steve Jobs related scam floating around the Internet. According to Trend Micro, this one comes in the form of an email sent from a fake charity organization cleverly titled, Steve Jobs Charity Fund. The email calls on its recipients to donate money to the fund, which claims, rath...

Phishing Site hacked for teaching lesson to Scam Lovers

Phishing Site hacked for teaching lesson to Scam Lovers Researchers at the security firm GFI Labs found an email used to lure people to a phishing site called "canal-i." The message attempts to scare unsuspecting readers by telling them they have exceeded the storage limit on their inbox, and say...

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet As is not unusual when big news breaks, malware authors try to take advantage of the situation.A global computer virus that hides in an email about Gaddafi's death has been detected by Norman. The malware was caught in its worldwide network of spam traps. The...