Fake Malwarebytes helpline scammer caught in the act

An estimated one in every 10 American adults lost money in a cyber scam in the past 12 months, according to a report released by the FTC earlier in the month. On average, each scam victim lost $430, totaling about $9.5 billion overall. To put this in perspective, that’s over 22 million Americans...

Watch Out! First-Ever Word Macro Malware for Apple Mac OS Discovered in the Wild

After targeting Windows-based computers over the past few years, hackers are now shifting their interest to Macs as well. The emergence of the first macro-based Word document attack against Apple's macOS platform is the latest example to prove this. The concept of Macros dates back to 1990s. You...

FTC Shutters $120 Million Tech Support, Bogus Software Scam

Earlier this week a federal court in Florida issued a temporary restraining order shutting down a series of organizations in the business of peddling fake software and nonexistent tech support services, temporarily freezing the assets of those companies’ and placing them under the control of a...

Darkhotel APT Malware Targets Global CEOs Using Hotel Internet

A seven-year-old cyber espionage campaign has targeted senior level executives from large global companies by using a specialized Advanced Persistent Threat APT, zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to extract information from them when they stay in luxury hotels during their business...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Software Configuration Information Email Messages on May 21, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34320 First Published: 2014 May 21 15:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain instructions for software configuration settings for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Security Software Patch Email Messages on May 20, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34300 First Published: 2014 May 20 15:08 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a security software program for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Software Offer Email Messages on March 3, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33167 First Published: 2014 March 4 21:09 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the...

December Top 10 Malware List !

GFI Software, a leading IT solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, today revealed continuing high levels of Trojan and rogue malware circulating during December, with data revealing a surge in activity, boosted by themed activity around the Christmas and New Year holiday period...

SEO Scareware Campaign Compromises 200K Websites

Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software Inst58s6.exe, commonly referred to as scareware. The massive blackat SEO campaign has been launched by the same...

Apple Malware Bounty: Infect a Mac, Earn $0.43

GENEVA — In a sign that cyber-criminals are investing more time and resources into attacks against Apple’s Mac users, a new malware affiliate program has been discovered offering 43c for every infected Mac machine. During an eye-opening presentation at the VB Conference 2009 conference here, Soph...