November 29th, 2010 → 4:36 am @ Sue Walsh
Consumers who hit the web looking for Cyber Monday deals were hit with a deluge of spam links. Almost every search for keywords such as “Cyber Monday” and “cyber Monday deals” returned the same handful of domains as the top results.
These domains included tgifridaydeals.com, gadgetglass.com, and ifridaydeals.com and contained blogs filled with gibberish along with [...]
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Cyber Monday Spammer Hits Google
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November 16th, 2010 → 3:45 am @ Paul Mah
New developments on the phishing front could dramatically increase the likelihood of even seasoned computer users falling for email scams. As reported on the well-respected Infosecurity Magazine, this latest evolution has to do with real-time phishing, which could well circumvent most two-factor authentication (2FA) implementations – seen in some circles as the gold standard against [...]
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November 9th, 2010 → 4:16 am @ Paul Mah
The recent case of a man who broke into the email account of 170 women and used explicit pictures that he found to embarrass and blackmail them best illustrates the new ways that hackers and scammers are using known and existing weaknesses in email systems to their advantage. Let’s take a closer look at what [...]
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October 29th, 2010 → 9:31 pm @ Sue Walsh
The infamous phishing gang known as Avalanche has turned to the Zeus botnet to help boost their profits and diversify their activities. Experts say the cybercriminal gang, who last year were responsible for two-thirds of the world’s phishing attacks, has moved beyond just sending phishing emails to using Zeus to hijack browsers and conduct man-in-the-browser [...]
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Infamous Phishing Gang Uses Botnet to Boost Profits
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October 25th, 2010 → 7:27 am @ John P Mello Jr
To curb the exploitation by spammers of webmail and the comment sections at websites, White Hats created an ingenious system called CAPTCHA–”Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
The system is simple but effective. It displays some distressed text on a computer screen and asks whoever wants to register at a website, [...]
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October 20th, 2010 → 8:37 am @ Sue Walsh
The infamous Zeus Trojan is back and now being spread through a new tax spam campaign. The spam messages attempt to exploit the recent October 15th tax filing deadline for taxpayers who requested an extension.
With subject lines like “LAST NOTICE: Your Federal Tax Payment has been rejected in system” or “Your Tax Payment ID: 0103778341 [...]
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Zeus Spreading Through New Tax Spam
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October 12th, 2010 → 5:17 am @ John P Mello Jr
In recent weeks, two typically secure Internet sites have been exploited successfully by phishers.
Apple’s iTunes store, situated behind the company’s walled ecosystem, has been a tough nut to crack for cyber miscreants, although it has had problems with them from time to time. The other site, LinkedIn, an online community oriented toward networking for professionals, [...]
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Phishers target iTunes, LinkedIn users
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September 17th, 2010 → 7:10 am @ Sue Walsh
Asis Internet Services, the ISP known both for its flood of lawsuits against alleged spammers and for winning a $2.6 million judgment from one of them last May, has dropped its lawsuit against Subscriberbase claiming the lawsuit it filed (and lost) against AzoogleAds.com may send it to bankruptcy or even corporate dissolution. Last May, around [...]
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ISP That Won $2.6 Million Drops Suit Under Threat of Bankruptcy
September 15th, 2010 → 8:06 am @ Sue Walsh
A hacker has stepped forward to take credit for the “Here you have” worm that crippled thousands of corporate networks last week. The hacker, who has so far refused to reveal his or her identity, said the worm was meant as a propaganda tool to bring attention to their anti-American sentiments toward the war in [...]
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September 10th, 2010 → 5:49 am @ John P Mello Jr
Prankware is software designed to irritate its victims but it is relatively harmless. Over the years it has largely lost its popularity among hackers, as many of them have become more interested in producing revenue streams than stroking their egos. That’s why the recent outbreak of Clippo.A is a bit of an anomaly in today’s [...]
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