Facebook Apps Pump Out Mobile "Entertainment" Spam

Attacks via social networks continued their steady march on Tuesday, as an untold number of Facebook users unwittingly found themselves caught up in a spam run that pointed friends to premium mobile entertainment Web sites. DEK: A round of spam pumped out by Facebook applications lures users to...

TweetDeck Scam Uses Fake Update As Lure

Compromised Twitter accounts have been used to post links to an exploit portal that poses as a download site for an update to TweetDeck, the popular micro-blogging client software package. Read the full article. The Register...

Anti-Phishing Group Targeting Fax-Based Scams

The heyday of faxing may have passed twenty years ago, but scam artists haven’t given up on the old technology, especially when it comes to wheedling personally identifiable information out of unsuspecting office workers. Now a leading anti-phishing group is tackling the problem of fax based...

Scareware That Wants You to Uninstall AV

Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages. Read the full article. The Register...

'Dislike' Button Scam on Facebook Goes Viral

Researchers are advising Facebook users to avoid offers to download an “official dislike button”, which the firm claims has spread virally across the service. There are two different versions of the ruse thus far, both with tiny URL links to rogue applications. Read the full article...

SMS Crime Ring Busted in Malaysia

Malaysian cops have busted an alleged text message spam scam ring thought to have fleeced locals for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The group are suspected of raking in RM6.4m $1.9m between 2006 and April 2010 using fictitious lottery winnings as a bait for an advanced fee fraud. Read the full...

Feds Bust $100 Mil Scareware Crew

Federal authorities say they have cracked open a cybercrime gang that allegedly duped tens of thousands of consumers into paying more than $100 million for worthless antivirus protection, priced from $30 to $70. A Chicago grand jury returned an indictment against Bjorn Daniel Sundin, 31, a U.S...

Hentai Malware Criminals Arrested in Japan

Japanese police have arrested two men over suspected involvement in a Hentai-themed malware scam campaign. Read the full article. The Register...

Feasting on Twitter User Desire for Followers

The cybercriminals behind the intensifying phishing scam that has been plaguing Twitter since late last week are proving how easy it is to pervert the trust social networks like Twitter and Facebook along with search giant Google have made a cornerstone of their respective business models. The id...

Phishers Target Apple Gift Cards

The latest of the series of Apple-related scams involves a phishing site for checking Apple gift cards. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Estafas en Facebook

Tenga cuidado con las estafas en Facebook. Dos estafas comunes son: 1 Uno de sus amigos de pronto le manda un mensaje de que necesita dinero de emergencia porque ha sido asaltado o algo así en una tierra lejana. Entonces usted se ve involucrado en una conversación para prestarle dinero. Esto es l...

Whole Foods Fan Page Scam on Facebook

Upscale grocery conglomerate Whole Foods Market said it is continuing to clamp down on a series of Facebook-based scams that entice users with a purported $500 gift card from the Austin, Texas-based supermarket chain. Read the full article. CNet...

Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Email Scam

US-CERT is aware of public reports of an active email scam. These emails, which appear to come from seemingly legitimate law firms, indicate that someone has filed a copyright lawsuit against the message recipient. The messages may contain malicious attachments or web links. If a user opens the...

Facebook Warns of Profile Stalking Scam

A bogus application that lures Facebook users by falsely offering to show who has been viewing their profile has been exposed as a scam. A researcher warns he has already identified 25 different copies of the same rogue app but using different monikers such as peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online a...

Fake Apple Phish Scam Targets iPhone Users

iPhone users beware – an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating Apple.com, attempts to trick users into submitting sensitive device information, with the scammers in a perfect position to use the data in a countless number of fraudulent variations. Read the full article. ZDNet...

IRS Phishing Scam Targets Corporations

Fake emails claiming to be from the IRS are a variation of the usual IRS phishing expeditions that typically target end users during tax time, but this campaign aims to infect organizational machines through corporate rather than personal email. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

United Way Hack Exposes Work-at-Home Scam

Hackers broke into computer systems at a Massachusetts chapter of the United Way last month and attempted to make off with more than $150,000 from one of the nation’s largest charities with the use of a money mule duped by a “Work-at-home” scam. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

IRS Tax Phishing Scam Circulating

It’s tax season, and that means IRS-related phishing scams are ramping up. One such fake e-mail hitting in-boxes this past week asks “U.S.-based employers” to complete an “updated” version of the government’s W-2 form because of “important changes” within the forms. Read the full article...

Inside An Online Banking Money Mule Scam

New evidence indicates one of the gangs chiefly responsible for bank attacks actually managed to hack directly into a West Virgina U.S. bank last year and siphon off tens of thousands of dollars with the aid of unsuspecting money mules. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Android App Is Rogue Phishing Scam

A phisher hoping to harvest bank login details managed to smuggle his app onto the Android app store. Malicious apps posted by Droid09 were quickly identified, prompting a warning to legitimate users and a ban for the VXer. Read the full article. The Register...