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'HoeflerText' Popups Target Browsers With RAT and Locky Ransomware
A malware campaign utilizing bogus popups that alert users to a missing web-font is targeting Google Chrome and Firefox browser users. The popups contain a malicious JavaScript file that initiates the download of either the NetSupport Manager remote access tool RAT or Locky ransomware. The...
How a Citadel Trojan Developer Got Busted
A U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta last week handed a five year prison sentence to Mark Vartanyan, a Russian hacker who helped develop and sell the once infamous and widespread Citadel banking trojan. This fact has been reported by countless media outlets, but far less well known is the...
Report: Second quarter dominated by ransomware outbreaks
The second quarter of 2017 brought ransomware to unprecedented levels with worldwide outbreaks that went almost out of control. In scenarios reminiscent of yesteryears worms, WannaCry created global panic as it used a critical vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol to propagate like wildfire. Within...
FBI: Extortion, CEO Fraud Among Top Online Fraud Complaints in 2016
Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss were among the most costly cyber scams reported by consumers and businesses last year, according to new figures from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. The IC3 report released Thursday correctly identifies...
Few Victims Reporting Ransomware Attacks to FBI
Ransomware may have been the most prevalent internet threat of 2016, and WannaCry certainly made it a mainstream conversation, but that doesn’t mean people are reporting incidents to law enforcement. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center’s annual report published this week counted only 2,673...
FTC Releases Alert on Tech-Support Scams
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on technical-support scams. In these schemes, deceptive tech-support operations offer to fix problems that don't exist, placing calls or sending pop-ups to make people think their computers are infected with viruses. Users should not give...
IC3 Issues Internet Crime Report for 2016
The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released its 2016 Internet Crime Report, describing the numbers and types of cyber crimes reported to IC3. Business Email Compromise BEC, ransomware attacks, tech support fraud, and extortion are all common schemes affecting people in the U.S. and aroun...
A week in security (Jun 12 – Jun 18)
Last week was very busy for the Labs, with a look at so-called numeric tech support scams, a visit to the huge Infosec Europe conference, an exploration of Mac Malware as a Service, and a walk through the myths of online bullying. Elsewhere: A huge click-farm is busted Jaff Ransomware is thwarted...
The numeric tech support scam campaign
There are many different tech support scam TSS campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts the browser lockers, or bundled software the screen lockers. Something interesting happened recently, where legitimate - but hacked - websites would redirect t...
A week in security (Jun 05 – Jun 11)
Last week, we interviewed our very own Pieter Arntz to get to know him a little better. We also touched on the importance of HTTPS and focused on a new social engineering scheme that triggers on mouse movement. We also took a deeper look at LatentBot, a Trojan that is being distributed by the RIG...
テクニカル サポート詐欺との戦い
本記事は、Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit の Courtney Gregoire による投稿 "The fight against tech support scams" 2017 年 5 月 18 日 米国時間公開 を翻訳したも...
Woman wins $10,000 after suing Microsoft over 'Forced' Windows 10 Upgrade
Since the launch of Windows 10 in July last year, Microsoft is constantly pestering users to upgrade their PCs running older versions of the operating system. However, many users who are happy with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and don't want upgrade to Windows 10 now or anytime soon are sick of this...
FTC Releases Alert on Tech-Support Scams
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on tech-support themed telephone scams. In these schemes, fraudulent callers claim to be from legitimate technical support organizations and offer to fix computer problems that don't exist. Users should not give control of their computers to...
Kanye West, Who wants to destroy ‘The Pirate Bay’, Caught using Torrent Site
The 38-year-old rapper Kanye West is at the centre of controversy once again. West is himself a Pirate Lover just like everyone else, and he proved it today by sharing a photo of his laptop screen on Twitter. The rapper tweeted an ill-judged picture on Tuesday night to show what he was listening ...
FTC Shutters $120 Million Tech Support, Bogus Software Scam
Earlier this week a federal court in Florida issued a temporary restraining order shutting down a series of organizations in the business of peddling fake software and nonexistent tech support services, temporarily freezing the assets of those companies’ and placing them under the control of a...
IC3 Releases “Tech Support” Themed Scam Alert
The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center NW3C to combat Internet crime, has released a Scam Alert advising the public of an ongoing telephone scam in which callers purport to be an employee of...
EMO Realty Manager SQLi Vulnerable
No description provided by source. Author: L0rd CrusAd3r aka VSN [email protected] Exploit Title:EMO Realty Manager SQLi Vulnerable Published: 2010-06-08 Vendor url:http://emophp.com Price:249$ Platform: Unix, Linux , Windows Greetz to:Sid3^effects, aaNumb, M4n0j and to all ICW members...
Gizmodo gets hacked via Apple tech support
Is your iCloud account secured by a good password? Please Don't rely on the cloud. Here's a terrifying tale of modern hacking. Mat Honan, a reporter at tech site Gizmodo, was playing with his daughter when his phone went dead. Thinking it was a software glitch, he rebooted, and went to log in to...
LivePerson Cross Site Scripting
Exploit Title: LivePerson Cross Site Scripting Date: 15.03.2012 Author: Sony Software Link: http://liveperson.com/ Google Dorks: inurl:/window/top.asp?site= or inurl:/window/main.asp?site= Web Browser : Mozilla Firefox Site : http://insecurity.ro PoC:...
