Microsoft Warns of Storm-0539: The Rising Threat Behind Holiday Gift Card Frauds

Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it's tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attac...

Pray.com exposed data of millions after database mess up

By Deeba Ahmed Pray.com applied lackluster security practices potentially exposing nearly 10 million users to frauds and cyberattacks, claim VpnMentor's researchers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pray.com exposed data of millions after database mess up...

This Week in Security News: Cyber Leads and Email Frauds

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, The Trump Administration added a cyber lead at Homeland Security and the Energy Department. Also, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 “email...

Hacker Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Spreading Linux Malware

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in fraudulent payments has been imprisoned for 46 months nearly four years in a United States' federal prison. 41-year-old Maxim Senakh, of Velikii Novgorod, was arrested by Finnish police in...

Google AdWords Campaigns Hijacked by Malvertisers

A malvertising scheme has hijacked at least two distinct Google AdWords advertising campaigns, redirecting users who had browsed to the sites hosting the poisoned ads without those visitors even clicking on them. Some of the sites in question service more than a million monthly users. Last week,...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank’s website...

Apple Taps Security Experts Ahead Of Lion OS Release

Apple is distributing copies of its yet unreleased OS X 10.7 Lion operating system to a handful of security experts, including former Pwn2Own winner, Charlie Miller, who claims this is the first time Apple has taken such actions, according to a report from PC World. The move, believed to be a fir...

Three cyber crimes a week in Andhra Pradesh this year !

Andhra Pradesh witnessed three cyber crimes a week on average in 2010 and a majority of them were Nigerian frauds, according to the state crime investigation department. Briefing media on the latest case, Additional SP cyber crimes U Ramamohan said this was the 54th case this year registered at t...

419 Scams Expanded in 2009

People around the world continue to be duped by advance-fee frauds, with one Dutch private investigation company estimating the highest ever annual losses occurred in 2009. Read the full article. Computerworld...