Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Receipt Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29929 First Published: 2013 July 2 22:08 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment receipt for the recipient. The email message instructs the recipient to open the attachment to view the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Notice Email Messages on July 4, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29923 First Published: 2013 July 2 13:20 GMT Last Updated: 2013 July 5 14:38 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment form attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Purchase Order Invoice Email Messages on June 27, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29838 First Published: 2013 June 28 16:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product order invoice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to op...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Notification Email Messages on June 21, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29743 First Published: 2013 June 21 14:11 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment notification for the recipient. The text in the message attempts to convince the recipient...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake German Invoice Delivery Email Messages on June 21, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29742 First Published: 2013 June 21 13:35 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain an invoice delivery notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convin...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Receipt Email Messages on June 19, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29707 First Published: 2013 June 19 14:20 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment receipt for the recipient. The email message instructs the recipient to open the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Customer Complaint Attachment Email Messages on December 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29685 First Published: 2013 June 18 14:32 GMT Last Updated: 2013 December 4 16:18 GMT Version: 14 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a customer complaint notification from Dun & Bradstreet for the recipien...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Online Banking Password Reset Email Messages on June 14, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29671 First Published: 2013 June 14 13:01 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an online banking password reset form for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Transfer Notification Email Messages on June 13, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29667 First Published: 2013 June 14 12:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bill Payment Notification Email Messages on November 27, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29638 First Published: 2013 June 11 16:20 GMT Last Updated: 2013 November 27 16:23 GMT Version: 13 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment notification for the recipient. The text ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Transfer Notification Email Messages on June 5, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29603 First Published: 2013 June 7 16:24 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message instructs the recipient to open the...

Malware Poses as Faux Adobe Flash Update

Cybercriminals are perpetrating a spam campaign by sending out emails with malicious attachments containing a Pony downloader that uploads a Zeus Trojan to victim machines while also leading users to a number of compromised domains housing fake Adobe Flash Player updates in order to dupe the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Personal Video Sharing Email Messages on October 9, 2013

Low Alert ID: 27713 First Published: 2013 January 2 15:05 GMT Last Updated: 2013 October 9 18:33 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a video attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempt...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Order Email Messages on February 26, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 27710 First Published: 2012 December 21 18:20 GMT Last Updated: 2014 February 27 13:02 GMT Version: 79 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product order quote for the recipient. The text in the email...

Phony T-Mobile, Vodaphone Notifications Duping U.K. Users

Cybercriminals in the United Kingdom this week have launched two separate but similar scams intent on gaining access to users’ computers. Both scams impersonate e-mail notifications from popular British cell phone companies and both ultimately open a backdoor on the targeted computers. E-mail...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Anti-Phishing Email Messages on March 9, 2015

Low Alert ID: 26510 First Published: 2012 July 30 22:05 GMT Last Updated: 2015 March 10 11:01 GMT Version: 32 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to be from the antiphishing.org support team. The message claims the recipient's system...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake DHL Express Tracking Notification Email Messages on February 3, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 26262 First Published: 2012 June 27 20:46 GMT Last Updated: 2014 February 4 13:56 GMT Version: 26 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a DHL Express tracking notification for the recipient. The text in the...

Trojan.Milicenso Print Bomb - Printer Trojan cause massive printing

Trojan.Milicenso - Printer Trojan cause massive printing A Trojan that sends printers crazy, making them print pages of garbled nonsense until all the paper has been used up, has seen a spike in activity.Symantec detected the Trojan.Milicenso across various countries, but the worst hit regions...

E-mail Trends Show Hackers Working Weekends Less and Less

While there are an increasing number of weekends catered to hacking, even hackers need a day off – and it shouldn’t surprise many that increasingly, that day is usually Sunday. Network security company FireEye reviewed statistics on email-based attacks for 2012 that suggest that Sunday has slowed...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Picture Link Email Messages on September 16, 2013

Low Alert ID: 25964 First Published: 2012 May 18 17:00 GMT Last Updated: 2013 September 17 14:05 GMT Version: 78 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages. The text in the email message instructs the recipient to follow a link or open an attachment...