IC3 Releases Scam Alert for Fraudulent Online Advertisements

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 released a Scam Alert regarding fraudulent ads for normally expensive items, such as cars and boats, at discounted prices. Scam operators often use false contact information linked to reputable online marketplaces to imply that the transaction is legitimate...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID12428: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 17, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 36426 First Published: 2014 November 17 15:07 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 RuleID12428 may contain the following files: Name |...

Key pinning bypasses — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Patrick McManus reported a method to use SPDY or HTTP/2 connection coalescing to bypass key pinning on different sites that resolve to the same IP address.This could allow the use of a fraudulent certificate when a saved pin for that subdomain should have prevented the connectio...

Amazon Linux AMI : ca-certificates (ALAS-2011-3)

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the ca-certificates...

TripAdvisor's Viator Hit by Massive Data Breach Affecting 1.4 Customers

TripAdvisor's Online travel booking and review website Viator has reportedly been hit by a massive data breach at its that may have exposed payment card details and account credentials of its customers, affecting an estimated 1.4 million of its customers. The San Francisco-based Viator, acquired ...

Mozilla to Support Key Pinning in Firefox 32

Mozilla is planning to add support for public-key pinning in its Firefox browser in an upcoming version. In version 32, which would be the next stable version of the browser, Firefox will have key pins for a long list of sites, including many of Mozilla’s own sites, all of the sites pinned in...

Google Constrains India CCA Root Cert in Wake of Bad Google and Yahoo Certificates

The Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities said that the certificate-issuance process for the National Informatics Centre of India, which issued several fraudulent certificates recently, which were blocked by Google, has been compromised and Google has decided to constrain India CCA’s root...

Brazilian Payment Fraud Campaign Steals Billions

UPDATE–Hackers are targeting Brazil’s Boleto payment system, the second most popular payment method in the country, and have conducted hundreds of thousands of fraudulent transactions, though researchers differ over how much money has been stolen. Formally known as Boleto Bancario, Boletos are...

Mozilla Asks CAs for Details on Subordinate Certificate Controls

Mozilla has warned certificate authorities included in its root CA Certificate Program that they only have a few weeks left to comply with the company’s new policy, which requires CAs to adhere to the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements and provide proof of audits of their subordinate...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Overdue Notice Email Messages on April 23, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33912 First Published: 2014 April 23 20:45 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment overdue notice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Like Apple's TouchID, Galaxy S5 Vulnerable to Fingerprint Hack

Researchers published a video this week demonstrating how Samsung’s latest entry in the smartphone arena, the Galaxy S5, is vulnerable to a hack that involves lifting and copying fingerprints to trick the phone’s biometric sensor. Much like the Apple iPhone 5S, the smartphone, which first hit the...

Gameover ZeuS Trojan Targets Users of Monster.com Employment Portal

Zeus Trojan is one of the most popular families of Banking Trojan, which was also used in a targeted malware campaign against a Salesforce.com customer at the end of the last month and researchers found that the new variant of Zeus Trojan has web crawling capabilities that are used to grab...

Sally Beauty Supply Acknowledges Breach of 25K

Twelve days after acknowledging that someone attempted to breach its system, Sally Beauty Supply confirmed this week that an attacker was able to penetrate the company and make off with fewer than 25,000 records of its customers’ sensitive banking information. The chain’s parent company Sally...

Fraudulent SSL Certificates Man-In-The-Middle

Fake SSL certificates may be used to carry out man-in-the-middle attacks against affected targets. Successful attacks would allow attackers to decrypt legitimate online traffic...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Account Fraud Notification Email Messages on March 3, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33156 First Published: 2014 March 3 15:28 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank account fraudulent transaction notice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convinc...

Scammers Using World Cup as Phishing Lure

The World Cup is still four months away, but attackers already are ramping up their efforts to defraud fans. As with most major events, such as the Super Bowl, the Olympics and others, attackers are using fans’ enthusiasm for the event as a lure to separate them from their money. When a major eve...

Mac OS X Flashback Trojan is still alive, recently infected 22,000 Apple machines

The Flashback Trojan, the most sophisticated piece of malware that infected over 600,000 Apple's Macs systems back in April, 2012 is still alive and has infected about 22,000 machines recently, according to the researchers from Intego. For a refresh, Flashback Trojan was first discovered in...

Microsoft Says ZeroAccess Click-Fraud Botnet Abandoned

Microsoft is declaring the ZeroAccess botnet dead. Two weeks after obtaining a court order to disrupt the botnet’s ability to carry out click-fraud, assistant general counsel Richard Boscovich of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit said late last week that the botmasters behind ZeroAccess had abandon...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Visa Card Fraudulent Transaction Notification Email Messages on November 13, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31754 First Published: 2013 November 13 20:49 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a fraudulent transaction notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to persuade t...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake VISA Card Transactions Report Notification Email Messages on November 11, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31714 First Published: 2013 November 11 20:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a VISA card transaction report for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...