Google DoubleClick Open Redirect

Google DoubleClick.netAdvertising System URL Redirection Vulnerabilities Can be Used by Spammers Although Google does not include Open Redirect vulnerabilities in its bug bounty program, its preventive measures against Open Redirect attacks have been quite thorough and effective to date. However,...

Cyber Criminals Use Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Plane Crash News to Bait Users

Any occasion that captures public attention – regardless of how sensitive – comes out to be an opportunity for spammers and hackers to snatch users’ personal information and spread malware, and the tragedy of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is no exception. According to the U.S...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

BEWARE of new Facebook Malware Claims, 'Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted'

Hackers are very smart on gaining from every opportunity they get and this time the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 gave them a chance to hijack, not the plane, but you all sitting over their operating your Facebook account and having an eye on every news related to the Mysterious Malaysian...

Google Pulls Adware Extensions from Chrome Store

Two Chrome extensions went from legitimate browsing ad-ons to adware-spewing nuisances in the blink of a legitimate transaction. Google recently took action against the Add to Feedly and Tweet this Page extensions, removing both from the Chrome Store after they were sold to adware brokers and fou...

Vulnerability in Facebook discloses Primary Email Address of any account

When you sign up on Facebook, you have to enter an email address and that email address becomes your primary email address on Facebook. In a recent disclosure by a Security researcher, Stephen Sclafani - The Social Networking site Facebook was vulnerable to disclosure of primary email address of...

Spammers Finding Favor with Google Translate

Some spammers, looking to launder the dirty links they email you, are relying on the positive reputation of Google Translate to redirect victims to rogue websites. Researchers at Barracuda Labs who maintain the company’s spam honeypots have spotted a rash of illicit messages trying to beat...

Spammers Using Fake YouTube Notifications to Peddle Drugs

Spammers are attempting to deceive unsuspecting users into clicking on fake YouTube links that lead to a counterfeit drug website, according to a report yesterday from security firm Webroot. Dancho Danchev writes that pharmaceutical scammers are circulating emails that mimic legitimate Youtube...

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...

Facebook strengthens security with AntiVirus Marketplace

Facebook strengthens security with AntiVirus Marketplace Facebook has launched Anti-Virus Marketplace , a new portal to protect the social network's users.Members are being encouraged to download anti-malware programs which they can use at no cost for six months. Facebook is strengthening its...

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses Web based underground market service currently selling Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military harvested emails addresses to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the...

Spammers Using Dropbox to Push Fake Pills, Malware

Spammers have jumped on the Dropbox bandwagon to push rogue-pharmaceuticals and malware, according to a report by Symantec’s Nick Johnston. Dropbox, a free, cloud-based file-sharing service, has a couple of features that make it attractive to spammers and malware-writers. One feature allows Dropb...

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...

URL Shortening Services Used in Large Malware Attack

Spammers have been exploiting anonymous URL shortening services for a while now but according to a post on Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence Blog, some have been using the technique as part of a large malware attack. Using five different URL shortening websites, the attackers sent mangled links...

Researchers Graph Social Networks to spot Spammers

Spammers, it turns out, aren’t like everyone else: they have fewer friends. That, according to new research by Microsoft scientists who have developed a new method of distinguishing attacker-created spam email accounts from legitimate ones. The new finding, from researchers Yinglian Xie and Fang ...

Spammers Chase Kate and Will With Engagement Ring Offer

Spammers find a way to tap in on most major world events, from celebrity deaths to tsunamis. So it’s no surprise that the boys and girls with the botnets are trying to cash in on the biggest news event of the moment: the royal wedding of Prince William of Great Britan to Kate Middleton. Securelis...

Spammers steal 400k user identities from Irish recruiter !

Job seekers' identities compromised in massive data breach. The Irish job website RecruitIreland.com was hacked last week, resulting in breached systems and the theft of the credentials of 400,000 users. The website was temporarily taken offline after the breach was discovered last Tuesday. A...

Hackers Steal 100,000 E-mail !

Two attackers were more than 100,000 e-mail users Apple iPad, including politicians and famous journalists, federal prosecutors said Tuesday notifying the prosecution of men. AT & T has revealed a vulnerability of months ago, and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there was evidence that the two men...

Spammers Moving to Social Networks

Its not just Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs that see dollar signs hovering over Facebook. Spammers are hopping on the social networking giant to fool users, according to a report from security firm Cloudmark. Spammers are using botnets to send a barrage of malicious e-mail spam that mimic...

Wordpress Update Fixes Malicious Author Vulnerability

An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform fixes a known security hole that could have enabled a malicious contributor to gain wider control over the blog to which he or she contributed. WordPress 3.0.2 was posted on Tuesday. The privilege escalation hole was described as of “moderate”...