Shocker: Scammers Exploit Death of Former Libyan Ruler

In one of the least surprising computer security news events of 2011, the death of longtime Libyan leader, and self-proclaimed “African King of Kings” Colonel Muammar Qaddafi spawned a slew of online scams. Within hours of Qaddafi’s capture and death at the hands of Libyan rebels, security firms...

XBox Security Chief Says Account Hacks Linked To Phishing, Resale Schemes

In a pattern that is becoming more common, hackers are hijacking XBox Live accounts, then tricking them out with expansion modules and other add-ons before trying to resell them to unwitting third parties. Recent XBox Live account hijacks are most likely the product of phishing and identity theft...

Steve Jobs' Death Saddens World, Inspires Spammers

It was one of those odd moments where the entire online community was briefly unified in its mourning of the tech visionary, Apple co-founder, and former CEO whose life-work has demanded nearly universal respect. But as with everything else on the Internet, it didn’t last long. The dregs of the W...

The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botn...

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning, where an automated message what I like to call a "Digital Dorothy" warns you in a semi-robotic voice that your computer's security is not up-to-date. "Attention: this is an automated...

Cybercrime Profits Approaching Those Of The Drug Trade?

The yearly cost of cybercrime may have surpassed that brought in by the illegal trades in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined, and could be rapidly approaching the entire value of global drug trafficking, according to a new survey conducted by security firm Symantec. Annual losses resulting fr...

Potential Hurricane Irene Phishing Scams

In the past, US-CERT has received reports of phishing scams and malware campaigns related to topics that are of high-interest to the U.S. Government or news media, such as Hurricane Irene. Users' systems have been compromised by receiving and accessing phishing emails with subject lines that seem...

Facebook: You Should Only Friend People You Know. Seriously. We're Not Kidding.

After a string of controversies over promiscuous data sharing and account takeovers, social networking giant, Facebook, has released a 13 page guide for users who want to secure their Facebook account. Among other things, the 700 million strong social network is warning its users to only “Friend”...

How Spammy Facebook Scams Still Manage to Claim Millions of Victims

As Facebook scams continue to loom and infiltrate news feeds, web security firm Websense has conducted a study to tabulate just how far these campaigns stretch. The news isn’t encouraging, with scams on Facebook estimated to reach more than a million users in a matter of days. According to a...

Shocking Winehouse Death Videos Linked to Scams

Scammers wasted little time generating campaigns to exploit the untimely death of troubled pop-diva, Amy Winehouse. Anti malware experts have identified at least five separate scams attempting to exploit the event, promising videos of Winehouse shortly before her death.The scams include Facebook...

Sony Pictures Admits to Another Breach Affecting Some 35k

Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE released a consumer alert yesterday admitting that an attack on SonyPictures.com compromised the personally identifiable information PII of some 37,500 of their customers. Sony said the breach did not spill any credit card information or social security numbers. It...

Facebook Says - I am vulnerable, Please Hack Me !

Facebook Says - I am vulnerable, Please Hack Me ! I have so many friends on facebook and everyone of them always asks me why Facebook sucks ? So finally I am showing that facebook is completely against your Security & Privacy and there are more other secure ways to connect with world, like Twitte...

Mississippi Flooding Disaster Email Scams, Fake Antivirus, and Phishing Attack Warning

Users should be aware of potential email scams, fake antivirus, and phishing attacks regarding the Mississippi flooding disaster. Email scams may contain links or attachments that may direct users to phishing or malicious websites. Fake antivirus attacks may come in the form of pop-ups that flash...

Bin Laden Home Videos Feed Google Image Attacks

Online scammers are recycling video and images released in the wake of the U.S. special forces raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound to fuel Web based attacks that have been linked to rogue anti virus installations and botnets, according to Kaspersky Lab. Screenshot stills taken from home...

Reality TV Show X-Factor Spills Data On 250,000 Hopefuls

Reality TV hopefuls are prepared to bare all for a chance at insta-celebrity. But prospective contestants for the new Simon Cowell show X-Factor probably didn’t expect that their names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers to be up for grabs. Alas, that’s how it turned out after a network breach at...

Osama Bin Laden's Death Email Scams, Fake Antivirus, and Phishing Attack Warning

Users should be aware of potential email scams, fake antivirus, and phishing attacks regarding Osama Bin Laden's death. Email scams may contain links or attachments that may direct users to malicious websites. Fake antivirus attacks may come in the form of pop-ups that flash security warnings and...

Trinity College Dublin Reports Data breach !

Trinity College Dublin Reports Data breach ! A file containing the names of students and staff of Trinity College Dublin, along with their addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, was "inadvertently" made accessible on a local network, the college said. TCD said today it had reported the incide...

Video Game Phishing

US-CERT is aware of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service. In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE. Games are products of third party developers that a...

Customers Say Scammers Calling, Texting in Wake of Email Breach

As the first phishing attacks begin to emerge targeting the millions of customers affected by the email data breach at Epsilon, there are indications that more than just email addresses and names may have been taken during the attack. Some customers whose email addresses were compromised as part ...

Expert: Three Quarters of Employees Duped by Phishing Scams

In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had...