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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 26th, 2016
Phishing Trick Uses Facebook's Website to Fool Users

Phishing Trick Uses Facebook's Website to Fool Users

Beware of Facebook apps asking for your login details

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 26th, 2016
Armada Collective Copycats Made $100,000 Only from Empty DDoS Threats

Armada Collective Copycats Made $100,000 Only from Empty DDoS Threats

The group never launched one single DDoS attack

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 22nd, 2016
Opera's VPN Is Just a Proxy, Developer Says

Opera's VPN Is Just a Proxy, Developer Says

Opera might have gone overboard with its marketing campaign

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 15th, 2016
Crypto-Currency Miner Pushed as PUP, Ramps Up Your GPU Card Usage

Crypto-Currency Miner Pushed as PUP, Ramps Up Your GPU Card Usage

Crook: Ads are boring, lets mine for crypto-currencies!

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 7th, 2016
FBI Warning: Companies Lost $2.3B in the Last 2.5 Years to Business Email Scams

FBI Warning: Companies Lost $2.3B in the Last 2.5 Years to Business Email Scams

BEC scams increased 270% in the past year

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 4th, 2016
Oculus Rift Terms of Service Are an Insult to Privacy, Common Sense

Oculus Rift Terms of Service Are an Insult to Privacy, Common Sense

Users are giving up a lot of things just to experience VR

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 20th, 2016
Fake Security Alert: No, This Guy Isn't Stealing Money from Contactless Cards

Fake Security Alert: No, This Guy Isn't Stealing Money from Contactless Cards

Facebook post triggers Internet mass-panic

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 19th, 2016
IRS Warns of a 400 Percent Rise in Tax-Related Phishing Emails

IRS Warns of a 400 Percent Rise in Tax-Related Phishing Emails

Tax-themed incidents have reached record numbers this year

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 12th, 2016
Bad UI Design Sabotages Security of ASUS SoHo Routers

Bad UI Design Sabotages Security of ASUS SoHo Routers

ASUS router owners should always leave their firewall on

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 11th, 2016
Fake Netflix Apps Deliver Banking Trojans

Fake Netflix Apps Deliver Banking Trojans

Netflix users are also targeted with phishing scams

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 29th, 2016
Scam Alert: Be Like Bill Facebook Meme Generators May Put You in Danger

Scam Alert: Be Like Bill Facebook Meme Generators May Put You in Danger

Shady Be Like Bill meme generators will collect user info

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 28th, 2016
Zero-Click Scam Tries to Extort $2,000 from Users

Zero-Click Scam Tries to Extort $2,000 from Users

Online scammers find new techniques to con victims

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 26th, 2016
Another iPhone-Crashing Bug Appears, Makes over 315,000 Victims and Counting

Another iPhone-Crashing Bug Appears, Makes over 315,000 Victims and Counting

Just don't click strange short URLs and you'll be fine

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 23rd, 2016
Web Reconnaissance Attack Infects 3,500 Websites, Possibly WordPress

Web Reconnaissance Attack Infects 3,500 Websites, Possibly WordPress

Attackers are adding unauthorized code at the top of infected websites, over 3,500 sites already infected

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 21st, 2016
Kovter Malware Victims Were Secret Zombies in the ProxyGate Proxy Network

Kovter Malware Victims Were Secret Zombies in the ProxyGate Proxy Network

Legitimate proxy software distributed with Kovter malware

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 19th, 2016
Chrome Extensions Steal Your Steam Inventory

Chrome Extensions Steal Your Steam Inventory

Steam scammer caught red-handed by Panda Security researcher

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 10th, 2016
Dell Has a Severe Tech Support Scam Problem

Dell Has a Severe Tech Support Scam Problem

Dell customers harassed by tech support scammers

 
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