​Google, Yahoo, Facebook Collaborate to Blacklist Bad Bots

The major tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! have joined their hands to launch a new program meant to block fake web traffic by blacklisting flagged IP addresses. Today, majority of data center traffic is non-human or illegitimate, so to fight against this issue the Trustworthy...

Google Helps Lead Effort Against Automated Traffic From Data Centers

Google is helping to lead a new effort to reduce the amount of fraudulent traffic that emanates from data centers and produces artificial clicks on ads. The collaborative initiative will rely on blacklists of known-bad IP addresses that Google and others maintain to help identify bots that are us...

The social security system, The exposed proximal 2 0 0 vulnerabilities, a hacker can obtain sensitive information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In recent years, because of the leakage of personal information causes of telecommunications fraud, crooks know of the victims unit, name, ID number, level of income. The social security system vulnerability to cause the leakage of personal information, may be one of the sources. 2 0 1 3 year to...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

Google Pulls ClickFraud App from Google Play

A malicious Android app spoofing the popular BatteryBot Pro app has been pulled from Google Play. Researchers at Zscaler reported the app, which had a package name of com.polaris.BatteryIndicatorPro. The app requested excessive permissions from the user in an attempt to get full control of an...

Ad Fraud Malware Updating Flash on Infected PCs

Ad fraud malware is one of the more profitable specialties in the cybercrime world, and the attackers who use it often have to adapt their tactics in order to keep the money rolling in. One of the tactics that they have adopted in recent months is that of updating the version of Flash that’s...

These Are The FBI's Most Wanted Hackers — Total $4.2 Million Reward

The US State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are willing to pay a total $4.2 Million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of top 5 most wanted cyber criminals accused of conducting frauds of hundreds of millions of dollars. Evgeniy Bogachev,30; Nicolae Popesc...

IC3 Issues Alert on CryptoWall Ransomware

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that U.S. individuals and businesses are still at risk of CryptoWall ransomware fraud. Scam operators use ransomware—a type of malicious software—to infect a device and restrict access until a ransom fee is paid­­. Individuals an...

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...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID15704: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 3, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 39196 First Published: 2015 June 4 12:58 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 RuleID15704 may contain the following files: Name | Size...

Researchers Wary of Wassenaar Arrangement Proposed Rules

Professional security researchers concerned about proposed changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA that include stiff penalties for what today is considered legitimate offensive research, are worried about another impending punch to the gut. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry a...

ICBC Internet banking assistant and other security controls was traced to the presence of the“disaster-level”vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, ICBC Internet banking assistant and other security controls was traced to the presence of the“disaster-level”vulnerability, the vulnerability can cause remote arbitrary code execution on the user computer, security caused great harm. Baidu security prompts the user as soon as possible o...

PCI Compliance Simplified: Get Trained and Avoid Security Breaches

Target’s data breach is a chilling example: After the widely publicized hack, 12% of loyal shoppers no longer shop at that retailer, and 36% shop at the retailer less frequently. For those who continue to shop, 79% are more likely to use cash instead of credit cards. According to DeMeo, Vice...

Adsense Click Fraud Monitoring <= 1.7.5 - XSS

XSS via the phpwhois https://github.com/phpWhois/phpWhois component, which is also affected by a RCE apparently https://github.com/phpWhois/phpWhois/issues/34. It is unclear whether or not the issue has been fixed in the plugin...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

Researchers, FBI Warn of Nepal Earthquake Scams

The earthquake that hit Nepal late last month has caused untold damage in the region and kicked off a massive relief and aid effort. Attackers are loathe to let a chance like that go by, and they have concocted a number of schemes to deprive victims of their money and hope for relief funds. Aid...

DigiCert Offers Continuous Monitoring of Digital Certificates to Defeat Fraud

It’s an interesting time for certificate authorities. On the one hand, interest has never been higher in Web encryption, privacy and transport security, thanks to Edward Snowden. But on the other hand, the last few years has seen a steady stream of compromises of CAs, mis-issued certificates and...

IBM Outs Dyre Wolf Campaign Steals $1 Million

The Dyre banking Trojan‘s ascension to the top of the financial malware food chain took a massive leap forward in the first three months of 2015. Already spreading a damaging piece of malware that targets corporate bank accounts, the Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social...

Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding on Ad Networks

Dark corners of the Internet harbor trouble. They’re supposed to. But what about when Yahoo, CNN.com, TMZ and other busy destination sites heave disaster upon visitors? That’s the challenge posed by malvertising, the latest hacker Golden Goose used in cybercrime operations and even in some target...

Dridex Campaign Evades Detection with AutoClose Function

Pushers of the Dridex banking malware have gone old-school for some time now, moving the malware through phishing messages executed by macros in Microsoft Office documents. While macros are disabled by default since the release of Office 2007, the malware includes somewhat convincing social...