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...

Adobe Customer Information and Source Code Compromises

US-CERT is aware of the public acknowledgement of a compromise of up to 3 million Adobe customers' information, including names and detailed account information. The source code for multiple Adobe products may also have been compromised. US-CERT advises that Adobe customers be aware of possible...

NETELLER Direct Payment API is not vulnerable to reported parameter manipulation

Overview NETELLER Direct Payment API version 4.1.6 and possibly earlier versions were reported to be vulnerable to parameter manipulation via a modified HTTP POST request. After further analysis and discussion with NETELLER, this report was found to be incorrect. The NETELLER Direct Payment API i...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Online Account Fraudulent Activity Notice Email Messages on September 19, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30882 First Published: 2013 September 19 19:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a fraudulent, online-account activity notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts...

Amazon Linux AMI : ca-certificates (ALAS-2011-03)

This update includes the latest updates to the root Certificate Authority list from Mozilla. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the ca-certificates package, rendering any HTTPS certificates signed ...

Twitter Account 'Classifier' Detects Fraudulent Accounts

Fraudulent Twitter accounts are a booming business, accounting for significant underground money for spammers, fake antivirus scams, drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. But research presented at USENIX yesterday proposes a means for driving up the cost for attackers to get these campaigns of...

Beware of Fraudulent Sites, phishing for Twitter accounts

There's a scam spreading through Twitter Direct messages DMs and fake emails, appealing users to visit a fake twitter phishing site i.e "twittler.com". Scam uses a hijacked Twitter account to send out direct messages that appear completely legitimate. Security blogger, Janne Ahlberg blogged about...

Oracle Linux 6 : ca-certificates (ELSA-2011-1248)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:1248 : An updated ca-certificates package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. This package contains the set of CA certificat...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

Algerian Hacker linked to SpyEye virus extradited to US

The Algerian hacker linked with the SpyEye computer virus, designed to steal financial and personal information was extradited by Thailand to the United States to face charges that he hijacked customer accounts at more than 200 banks and financial institutions and have been used to steal more tha...

Russian Police, Cybersecurity Company Arrest Cybercriminal

If you’ve ever sat in on a cybersecurity hearing on Capitol Hill or attended a security conference , then you’re no doubt familiar with the oft-preached need for information sharing and private-public partnerships. So frequently repeated are these refrains that they’re almost as meaningless as th...

Chameleon Botnet Stealing $6M a Month in Fraudulent Ad Clicks

The Chameleon botnet continues to steal millions of dollars from online advertisers through fraudulent clicks made by malware. First discovered in late February, researchers at British-based Web analytics firm spider.io say more than 120,000 Microsoft Windows machines — the overwhelming majority...

Android developer said 'F-Secure can say that anything is malware'

As the popularity of Android has boomed, more and more malware is targeting the platform. Digital miscreants are using fraudulent developer accounts on Google's Play marketplace to spread malware. According to latest Mobile Threat report from F-Secure, Android malware continued to gain in share i...

Android developer said 'F-Secure can say that anything is malware'

As the popularity of Android has boomed, more and more malware is targeting the platform. Digital miscreants are using fraudulent developer accounts on Google's Play marketplace to spread malware. According to latest Mobile Threat report from F-Secure, Android malware continued to gain in share i...