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...

Zone-H Cross Site Scripting

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Fake American Express Emails Circulating

Emails purportedly coming from American Express are making the rounds of inboxes this month. The link in the email takes them to an AmEx website lookalike, where if they enter the requested information, it gets sent to cybercriminals. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Windows Users Targeted in Anti-Malware Scam

A rogue anti-malware product called DefenceLab redirects infected PCs to Microsoft’s Support portal, but modifies the HTML content as it returns so as to appear as if Microsoft is endorsing the worthless software. Read the full article. The Register...

Google Sues Work@Home Scam Co.

Google filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. company it alleges runs work-at-home scams that unnecessarily charge people’s credit cards and spoof Google’s brand name. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Web Admins Targeted in Phishing Attack

Scam e-mail artists have launched a massive campaign to trick webmasters into giving up the credentials needed to administer their Web sites, targeting site owners at more than 90 online hosting providers. Read the full article. Washington Post...