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...

Fraud Alert Issued on Business Email Compromise Scam

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC and federal law enforcement agencies have released a joint alert warning companies of a sophisticated wire payment scam referred to as business email compromise BEC. Scammers use fraudulent information to trick companies into...

Sally Beauty Investigating Second Data Breach

Sally Beauty Supply, a seller of beauty products in the U.S., says it is investigating reports of fraudulent activities involving payment cards used at some of the chain’s retail locations. In March 2014, Sally Beauty admitted that hackers compromised its payment systems, exposing the sensitive...

Where is your social security number today?

As April 15 approaches, the "water cooler" talk revolves around all types of topics related to the tax season. However, due to the overwhelming number of security breaches reported this past year, several individuals are finding that fraudulent tax filings were created with voluntarily provided...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID14557: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 38307 First Published: 2015 April 10 14:55 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 RuleID14557 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

FBI Warns of Phony Sites Offering Government Services

Consumers looking for a replacement Social Security card or government-issued Employer Identification Number EIN are running into a slew of fraudulent search engine results and equally phony websites. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center today issued an advisory warning that consumer and...

IC3 Issues Alert for Fake Government Websites

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert that warns consumers of fraudulent government-services websites that mimic legitimate ones. Scam operators lure consumers to these fraudulent websites in order to steal their personal identifiable information PII and collect fees for...

Google Removes 200 Ad-Injectors Chrome Extensions

In the War against Ad injectors, Google has started removing ad-injecting extensions for its Chrome browser after it discovered as many as 200 Chrome extensions that exposed Millions of its users to malicious software and fraudulent activities. While working with a team of researchers from the...

Hackers Selling Uber Credentials on Underground Market

The alternative taxi service Uber denies insinuations that its systems were breached following reports claiming that underground forums are offering Uber user-credentials for as little as $1. First reported by Vice Magazine’s Motherboard spinoff, the information for sale also includes names, the...

Microsoft Warns Fraudulent Certificate Could Lead to MiTM Attacks

Microsoft has blacklisted a phony SSL certificate that’s been making the rounds and is in the process of warning the general public that the certificate could be leveraged to stage man-in-the-middle attacks. In a security advisory published yesterday the company stressed that an improper...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID13760: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 28, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 37679 First Published: 2015 March 2 14:47 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 RuleID13760 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

IRS Issues Warning for a Scam Targeting Tax Preparers

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a press release addressing a new spear phishing scam targeting tax preparers and other tax professionals. Scam operators often use fraudulent e-mails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to...

Intuit Suspends Turbo Tax, Investigating Fraudulent Returns

UPDATE: This story has been updated with commentary from Intuit. Intuit last Thursday suspended its Turbo Tax e-filing service after a dramatic increase in suspicious filings and criminal attempts to leverage stolen identities in order to claim tax refunds. Intuit has since restored Turbo Tax and...

FBI: Business Email Compromise Scams Steal $214m in 2014

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 is sounding the alarm on a type of fraud they are calling business email compromise BEC scams. The scheme, formerly known as a man-in-the-email attack, comes in three distinct flavors, each of which is ultimately designed to dupe corporate employees o...

Venafi to Launch Certificate Transparency Log

Three weeks after the first non-Google public log for Certificate Transparency was launched by DigiCert, officials at Venafi said that the company plans to debut its own public CT log. On Jan. 1 Google approved the use of DigiCert’s log, the first CT log that is independent and not operated by...

IC3 Releases Alert for a Scam Targeting Businesses

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert warning companies of a sophisticated wire payment scam dubbed the Business E-mail Compromise. Scammers use fraudulent information to trick companies into directing financial transactions into accounts they control. Users are encouraged...

IC3 Issues Alert on University Employee Payroll Scam

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert addressing a spear phishing scam targeting university employees and their payroll accounts. Scam operators use fraudulent e-mails and websites to entice employees to reveal login credentials. Users are encouraged to review the IC3 Alert...

Certificate Transparency Moves Forward With First Independent Log

The Certificate Transparency scheme proposed by Google engineers has taken a couple of significant steps forward recently, with the approval of the first independent certificate log and the passing of a deadline for all extended validation certificates to be CT-compliant or lose the green indicat...

Square: Delayed, fraudulent transactions possible with encrypted Square Reader devices due to lack of server-side verification of device transaction counter

Although Square Readers implement encryption, possibly with a Derived Unique Key Per Transaction DUKPT scheme, the transaction counter of a Square Reader device is not verified when performing server-side decryption of swipe data. During a valid sale, a malicious merchant or third party can recor...

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...