Donbot Botnet Exploiting Bank of America Customers

A phishing campaign via the Donbot botnet has been spamming unsuspecting Bank of America customers, according to a blog post by Rodel Mendrez at M86 Security Labs. Online banking customers who’ve been targeted receive an e-mail that appears to be from Bank of America instructing the user to confi...

Hobbit helmsman Jackson trap in $190K credit card scam !

Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson was the ambition of a US$190,000 £120,000 acclaim agenda artifice that approved to bond out a disturbing business. The recently-knighted Hobbit helmsman acclimated his American Express agenda to shop for items from the Michigan Toy Soldier Company, which...

FTC Charges Scareware Operators to Pay $8 Million Settlement

The FTC doled out $8 million in fines to the operators of an online scareware scheme. The scam involves tricking consumers into thinking their computers are infected with malware and then selling them software to remedy problems that doesn’t exist in the first place. A district court order in...

Beware Of Phishing Scams, Vishing, And Other Smishing !

Better Business Bureau has published a list of top 10 scam that seems not only to the biggest scam in 2010, but what to watch in 2011. In no particular order, here they are: Door to door scams Each of the new season of the show to attract new scammer port provides an incredible offer: Roofing in...

Worm Virus Twitter Scam Push Rogue !

Thousands of Twitter users are believed to have been struck with malicious links tied to a rogue anti-virus hoax circulating the microblog service. Scam is spreading malicious links goo.gl wrong URL shortening services. According to Kaspersky Lab, malicious links to redirect users to different...

Hackers Steal 2 Million Tonnes Of Carbon Credits In The EU !

Hackers have stolen two million tons of pollution rights in a raid five days this week in the carbon system of the EU, an EU source said Thursday. The amount of the stolen carbon credits in the online action, as a spokesman for the European Commission said was "maybe unified" represent only a...

Hackers Steal $ 150,000 Malware Job Search !

Small businesses are worried about a new scam: criminals in search of work who want to break into online bank accounts. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning Wednesday on a new version of a fraud technique called long-term computer automated information exchange fraud. With AC...

Scam Sites Demanding SMS Payment For Fake Flash, Firefox Downloads

Phishers and scammers have developed a new tactic for separating victims from their money that involves getting them to pay for software that’s normally free, such as Mozilla Firefox or Adobe Flash. The new scam is offering users the opportunity to download applications such as Flash, Firefox and...

Lolz ! I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates !

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fight...

PayPal phishing - has your account been temporarily limited?

Have you received an email, seemingly from PayPal, declaring that your account has been temporarily limited? Plenty of people have been targeted by an attack which uses the subject line "Your account has been temporarily limited!" and claims to come from what appears to be an offiicial PayPal...

White House E-Card Scam Part of Larger Zeus-Related Attack !

The simplistic spam campaign that hit around Christmas and purported to be a holiday greeting from the White House not only included a piece of Zeus-related malware that searches hard drives for documents and uploads them to a remote server, but also appears to be connected to a similar attack fr...

Fake Microsoft security update spreads Autorun worm !

Have you received an email seemingly from Microsoft's security team telling you to "Update your Windows"? Have you been sent a file called KB453396-ENU.zip and told to run it on your Windows computer? Well, think twice before following the instructions. Cybercriminals are up to their old tricks,...

White House E-Card Scam Part of Larger Zeus-Related Attack

The simplistic spam campaign that hit around Christmas and purported to be a holiday greeting from the White House not only included a piece of Zeus-related malware that searches hard drives for documents and uploads them to a remote server, but also appears to be connected to a similar attack fr...

Its 3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down !

3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down ! The website of the much sought-after Central Bureau of Investigation CBI continues to remain inactive, three weeks after it was hacked into by the so-called Pakistani Cyber Army. As a result, many have been badly hit, particularly the media...

Joint Director's (Technical Education Department) official mail ID hacked

The Joint Director of Technical Education Department in Palace Grounds has fallen prey to hacking and email fraud. His official email ID was hacked and a number of messages were sent to a number of government employees seeking help. Joint Director R Krishnamurthy said his official email ID create...

W32.Yimfoca Worm Targets Facebook Users via Yahoo! Messenger

A new computer worm is denying Facebook users access to their accounts. The worm, named "W32.Yimfoca" by the security company Symantec, spreads through Yahoo! Messenger and specifically targets Facebook users. It forces them to complete surveys before they can log into their profiles. The worm...

Fake Amazon Receipt Generator Dupes Merchants

A new scam has been circulating the internet lately that aims to swindle Amazon sellers by generating fake receipts. Amazon Receipt Generator, an executable file, has been making the rounds on hacking forums for the last few months. The program allows scammers to input an array of fake informatio...

No, you can't see who viewed you on Facebook !!

Let's put this matter to rest right now: Any Facebook application that offers to reveal who is viewing your profile is a scam. Period. Security research firm Sophos posted a memo about a rogue app that was spread on Facebook recently with messages like "OMG ... I can't believe this actually works...

Real SEO Feeding Traffic to Fake Search Engines

Online scam artists are using black hat search engine optimization SEO techniques to push more than just malicious software. In fact, SEO is increasingly being used to drive traffic to a range of phony Web based search engines that are feeding cost-per-click advertising scams, according to a blog...

Mobile Credits Used as Phishing Lure

Customers of an Italian bank were lured into a phishing scam with promises of mobile phone airtime credits, according to a blog post from analyst Mathew Maniyara on Symantec’s Connect blog. According to Maniyara, phishers posing under the guise of an Italian bank, are using a U.S.-based Web site ...