Extension Spam in Google Chrome Web Store

UPDATE: Twelve seemingly legitimate Chrome browser extensions installed by more than 180,000 users are injecting advertisements on 44 popular websites. According to a Barracuda Labs report, the extensions can be found in the official Chrome Web Store. They advertise themselves and operate as game...

Apple Phishing Scams on the Rise

Apple has one of the more gilded consumer brands and the company spends a lot of time and money to keep it that way. Consumers love Apple. Scammers and attackers do too, though, and security researchers in recent months have seen a major spike in the volume of phishing emails abusing Apple’s bran...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Spammers Using Fake YouTube Notifications to Peddle Drugs

Spammers are attempting to deceive unsuspecting users into clicking on fake YouTube links that lead to a counterfeit drug website, according to a report yesterday from security firm Webroot. Dancho Danchev writes that pharmaceutical scammers are circulating emails that mimic legitimate Youtube...

Scammers Exploit Apple iPhone Release with Accessory Offers

With the release event for Apple’s newest iPhone model going on, quite literally, as I type, it comes as no surprise that scammers are exploiting the vast anticipation for the iPhone 5. In fact, so wide is the interest in Apple’s unreleased products that among the first iPhone 5 mass spam campaig...

It's The Stupidity, Stupid: How Absurd Pitches Help Online Scammers Find Their Marks

Do you find e-mail pleas for help from the widow of Democratic Republic of the Congo strongman Mobutu Sese Seko unconvincing or downright silly? That may be the point, according to Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley. The outlandish claims of Nigerian Letter – or “419” – scams serve a critical...

Six Additional Carberp Scammers Arrested For Stealing $3.67m

Six more members of the Carberp gang have been arrested, according reports from the Russian Interior Ministry. Working with the firm Group-IB, authorities arrested six individuals affiliated with the Carberp and Hodprot malware. The group is alleged to have been responsible for thefts from client...

Malicious Android Apps Target Users in Japan

Cybercriminals targeted Android users in Japan with a number of malware-laced Android apps designed to mimic and masquerade as popular games, according to researchers at Symantec. Symantec said it has detected 29 such applications originating from seven developer accounts. Common coding...

Scammers Hop On Social Media Darling Pinterest

If the folks behind the photo sharing Web site Pinterest were looking for some validation that their fledgelings social media site had “arrived,” they got it this weekend, after scammers jumped on the site and used it to direct Pinterest users to survey scam Web sites. Trend Micro researchers...

Facebook Allowing VIPs To Verify Accounts, Use Nicknames

Lady Gaga and Carrothead rejoice: with a tweak of its ‘real name’ policy, Facebook will allow high profile members to verify their account and begin using nicknames or pseduonym to identify themselves. The company says the new feature will allow celebrities and other Facebook VIPs to get higher...

New Clickjacking Scam Uses Facebook, Javascript, Our Primate Brain To Spread

A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers. Writing on the Securelist blog, Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby said that the scam was circulating among Facebo...

Scammers Borrow Facebook 'Likes' From Top Sites To Promote Scams

Call it a new twist on Facebook “Like” jacking. Researchers at the firm Zscaler say that scammers are embedding Facebook “Like” widgets from top ranked Web brands and in Web pages used to promote online scams or distribute malware. The widgets make it appear as if tens- or hundreds of thousands o...

Shocker: Scammers Exploit Death of Former Libyan Ruler

In one of the least surprising computer security news events of 2011, the death of longtime Libyan leader, and self-proclaimed “African King of Kings” Colonel Muammar Qaddafi spawned a slew of online scams. Within hours of Qaddafi’s capture and death at the hands of Libyan rebels, security firms...

Apple Updates XProtect to Detect Mac Trojan

Apple released an update today for its built-in, malware protection platform, XProtect, in response to the emergence of Mac-targeting trojan that hijacks Google searches, according to an article posted on Softpedia. Once the trojan has installed itself on a user’s machine, it starts adding fake...

Shocking Winehouse Death Videos Linked to Scams

Scammers wasted little time generating campaigns to exploit the untimely death of troubled pop-diva, Amy Winehouse. Anti malware experts have identified at least five separate scams attempting to exploit the event, promising videos of Winehouse shortly before her death.The scams include Facebook...

Mobile Devices Key To Facebook's New Log-In Approval Feature

Facebook is implementing a new opt-in, two-factor verification security feature they are calling log-in approval. The new feature will require users to enter a unique, one time code, which Facebook will send via SMS whenever a user tries to access his or her account from a new and/or unrecognized...

NASA, Stanford sites hit by search engine scammers !

Scammers looking to flog cheap software have hacked Web pages on high-profile websites, including those belonging to NASA and Stanford University. NASA, just a week away from its penultimate space shuttle launch, has now removed dozens of Web pages that popped up on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Popular Sports Site Goal.com Serves Malware

Goal.com, a popular football aka “soccer” for all us Yanks news site was hacked and found serving malware via drive-by-downloads between April 27 and 28, according to a post by Web security firm Armorize. In an analysis of the attack, Armorize researcher Wayne Huang suggests that a hacker...

Education, Goverment Sites Still Serving Scammers Months Later

Back in January, Threatpost covered a story originally reported by Julien Sobrier of Zsacaler. Sobrier discovered that the websites of a number of prominent American universities and government institutions had been hijacked and were redirecting fake online stores. As it turns out, some of the...