IC3 Issues Alert on Gift Card Scams

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert warning consumers of fraud around the resale of gift cards. The secondary gift card market has grown in recent years, and criminal activity has been identified on sites facilitating such exchanges. When purchasing gift cards, look for...

KickAss Torrent Download Website Seized

So far, the torrent users didn’t forget the incident of The Pirate Bay seizer, that another most popular Torrent website, KickAss Torrents, has been kicked off by the Somalian registry. KickAss Torrent download website has lost access to its Kickass.so - the Somalian domain with millions of uniqu...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing online this holiday season. E-cards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed e-mail messages and fraudulent posts on social networking sites may...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID11806: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 1, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35904 First Published: 2014 October 2 16:11 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID11806 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on May 19, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34193 First Published: 2014 May 12 18:36 GMT Last Updated: 2014 May 20 13:44 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email...

Malicious iOS Tor Browser in Apple App Store

An iOS Tor Browser hosted for download on Apple’s notoriously restrictive App Store is reportedly a fake. Worse yet, not only is the application said to be illegitimate, but also allegedly malicious. According to a support ticket opened by a Tor Project volunteer operating under the handle Phobos...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on March 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33272 First Published: 2014 March 11 17:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a complaint notification from the Better Business Bureau for the recipient. The text in the email message attemp...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Police Complaint Notification Email Messages on February 12, 2014.

Medium Alert ID: 32849 First Published: 2014 February 13 14:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain a police complaint for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...

'Chaos Computer Club' filed criminal complaint against German government Over Mass Spying

After the revelation of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we all very well knew the impact of it on the world, but nobody would have estimated that the impact will be so worst. The revelation, not only defaced NSA, but also its counterpart GCHQ, and various other governments which were servin...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Company Complaint Notification Email Messages on January 31, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32646 First Published: 2014 January 31 21:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a company complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Service Complaint Email Messages on December 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 32267 First Published: 2013 December 23 15:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a customer complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

FBI Warning Users About Financial Malware Beta Bot

The FBI began warning computer users about the Beta Bot Trojan this week, sounding the alarm about malware that has targeted a variety of online payment platforms and financial institutions over the few last months. According to an intelligence note prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Email Messages on September 6, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30675 First Published: 2013 September 6 16:23 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a company compliant notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on January 28, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 30178 First Published: 2013 July 23 15:38 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 29 13:51 GMT Version: 25 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the ema...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on July 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30172 First Published: 2013 July 22 19:09 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business complaint notification from the Internal Revenue Service for the recipient. The text in the email...

Privacy Advocates File Complaint Over Jay-Z's 'MCHG' App,

Privacy advocates called out rapper/entrepreneur Jay-Z this week, filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over an app he released earlier this month that many critics feel goes overboard in the amount of the information it requests from users. Citing “deceptive business practices,”...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Fraud Complaint Information Email Messages on July 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29937 First Published: 2013 July 3 14:41 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a complaint case claim notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Customer Complaint Attachment Email Messages on December 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29685 First Published: 2013 June 18 14:32 GMT Last Updated: 2013 December 4 16:18 GMT Version: 14 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a customer complaint notification from Dun & Bradstreet for the recipien...

Arrested 'Happy Hacker' is the ZeuS Botnet Mastermind

Last week, Happy Hacker arrested in Thailand on charges of stealing millions from online bank accounts. According to new reports same hacker alleged as ZeuS Mastermind and used to have the profile of a miscreant nicknamed "bx1," a hacker fingered by Microsoft before as a major operator of botnets...