Philippine police arrest 357 foreigners for cyber fraud

Police on Thursday rounded up 357 foreigners accused of duping Taiwanese and Chinese citizens in an online scam in what an official described as the largest single-day operation against organized crime in the country. Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr., CIDG director, said CIDG and Paocc agents led by...

Phishing for Fanboys with Phony iPhone 5 Images

There is no such thing as a trivial detail when it comes to the impending release of an Apple product and scammers are well aware of this. A recent attack is exploiting the public’s fascination with all things Apple and the ubiquitous interest in anything iPhone 5-related with an email phishing...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Money Transfer Notification Email Messages on April 7, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 26690 First Published: 2012 August 20 19:55 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 8 13:28 GMT Version: 78 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a copy of a money transfer receipt for the recipient. The email message...

Reveton Ransomware uses Fake FBI Message to Extort Money

The FBI today warned of Internet-borne malware masquerading as a message from the law enforcement agency that locks computers until the user pays a fine for allegedly downloading and/or distributing illegal content. “We’re getting inundated with complaints,” Donna Gregory of the Internet Crime...

Fake Groupon Provides Great Deal … of Malware

Sophos is warning of a fake Groupon email carrying a Trojan instead of a group discount from a friend. The email mimics the real online coupon company’s branding, but a clue that the message is not legitimate is a misspelling in the subject header: “Groupon dicount gifts.” The fake offer opens wi...

Millions of Mobile Phone Users' Data Leaked in South Korea Scam

Two men have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly leaking the information of almost nine million of the nation’s mobile phone users, including details of the users’ monthly plans, according to a report issued by the Korea National Police Agency’s KNPA Cyber Terror Response Center CTRC over...

New Android Malware Family Infects 100,000

A new family of malware has infected some 100,000 Android devices via malicious application downloads on nine separate third-party markets in China, according to researchers at the mobile security provider TrustGo. The researchers are calling this strain ‘Trojan!MMarketPay.A@Android’...

Most of What You've Read About DNSChanger Is Wrong. Here's How.

If you’ve been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. – hundreds of thousands around the world – will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go...

Scamming site taken down by Hackers

Scamming site taken down by Hackers When hundreds of kids were duped into taking courses to improve their grades with a promise of an ipod if they succeeded, many pressured their parents to help find the company called Advantage Point Academy https://www.advantagepoint.org/ a place to administer...

Are You 'Siri-less'? Security Firm Urges Closer Look at Popular Personal Assistant App

The Finland-based security firm F-Secure is warning companies to beware of Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant app that last month was banned by IBM for security purposes. The potential for Siri-based data disclosures was cited at a Helsinki press conference, in which F-Secure’s vice...

FBI Warns Users of New 'Reveton' Scareware Scam

The FBI is warning consumers about a new scam that’s using a piece of malware called Citadel to redirect users to a scam site that installs scareware on their machines and demands a $100 payment to unlock them. The twist in this scam is that it uses the threat of prosecution by the Department of...

DNSChanger Lingers: 330k Systems Still Infected, 77,000 In The U.S.

The FBI said that there are still more than 330,000 computers believed to be infected with the DNSChanger malware, with just weeks to go before a court order to cut off their ability to communicate with the rest of the Internet. Fully 77,000 are located in the U.S., according to data provided to...

May 2012 – Mythic/Kickstarter

‘Mythic: Stories of Gods and Men’ was yanked from the increasingly popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, earlier this year after it became apparent that the game was, in actuality, a sham. Mythic touted itself as an action/strategy based role playing game and managed to raise $4,739 from 83...

Spammers Targeting Pinterest Using Point-And-Click Tools

Spammers have jumped on the latest social media craze: the photo sharing site Pinterest. And they’re being helped out by new, automated spam toolkits designed to exploit the fast growing new social network. As Threatpost has reported, spammers have figured out ways to use Pinterest to drive traff...

Kickstarter Data Breach Publishes 70,000 Startup Ideas

An application programming interface API error on the popular Kickstarter crowdfunding website exposed the plans and descriptions of more than 70,000 yet-to-be launched projects. The API bug exposed project descriptions, goals, durations, rewards, videos, images, locations, categories, and...

Travelers Cautioned When Using Hotel Internet Connections Abroad

Travelers abroad should be on alert for malware masquerading as a software update when they attempt to connect to the Internet from their hotel rooms. A warning issued by the Internet Crime Complaint Center says the FBI and other government agencies recently noticed malware that targets guests...

Scam Video Game Startup Yanked From Kickstarter After Raising Thousands

A project soliciting funds for a new video game to compete with the likes of World of Warcraft and Skyrim has been pulled from the crowd funding website Kickstarter after it became clear that the proposal was a sham. Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men raised $4,739 from 83 backers before it was...

Scareware/MacDefender

2011 MacDefender popped up in mid-2011. It mimicked the widely deployed and largely successful scareware scams that have been owning Windows machines for years. The phishing scam worked by redirecting Mac-users from legitimate websites to fake ones that attempted to convince users that their...

Authorities Renew Campaign to Disinfect Computers Before July 9

With a deadline to pull surrogate servers extended, the FBI has launched a new campaign to prevent up to 350,000 computer users from losing Internet access this summer – including those tied to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies like NASA. Over the weekend, news media outlets began...

Malware Campaign Extorts Users with SOPA Threats

A new scareware-ransomware hybrid attempts to convince users they are being sued in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and offers to remedy the problem if users purchase a fake antivirus solution. The malware claims to have detected illegal torrent files on the computer and offers to...