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:...

MS11-025: Description of the security update for Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package: April 12, 2011

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Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Application Extension Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Application Extension Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20100609-axp Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2010 June 09 1600 UTC GMT...

CVE-2010-1572

CVE-2010-1572 affects Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP) versions 1.1 and 1.1.5 (upgraded from 1.1) on Cisco ISRs. A privilege escalation exists in the tech support diagnostic shell: an authenticated AXP user can use the API to execute commands and obtain complete administrative access, r...

EMO Realty Manager - SQL Injection

EMO Realty Manager - SQL Injection 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...

[DDSi-SA] XSS in Raindance Communications Web Conferencing Pro

-= DDSi Security Advisory =- March 24, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Vendor: Raindance Communications, Inc. Raindance offers audio and web conferencing solutions for more effective web meetings. Integrated web, audio and internet video conferencing makes...