Sophos’ Senior Technology Consultant, Graham Cluley, has discovered a new phishing scam that has the potential to trick Apple fans into signing up for a mobile phone subscription service that charges them £4.50 (around 7 bucks) every week.
According to Cluley, scammers are hoping to catch you off guard w... |
9 January 2012
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Yet another phishing scheme has emerged posing as an email from Apple Customer Support that asks for your credentials. Don't fall for it! An email that looks a lot like those from Apple is doing the rounds bearing a message that asks to refresh your billing information. Customers are handed a link that says it... |
28 December 2011
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Sophos’ Graham Cluley is sounding the alarm on a new phishing scam targeting Apple ID holders. The emails, purporting to be from Apple’s support team, can be blocked as spam by the security vendor’s anti-malware products.Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos, Graham Cluley points your attention to ... |
1 December 2011
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A new scam is spreading on Twitter by distributing links to fake CNN news articles that allegedly confirm Osama bin Laden is still alive.The rogue tweets posted by victims of this scam vary, but the overall theme remains the same.Some of them read "omgg osama is alive!!! cnn confirmed that he's still out there :... |
23 May 2011
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Adobe warns that cyber criminals are piggybacking on the Adobe Acrobat X availability news in order to phish personal information from users. On Monday Adobe announced the release of Acrobat X solutions, which includes the Acrobat program itself and new Acrobat.com services, like the Adobe SendNow.Acrobat X provides ... |
17 November 2010
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Symantec reports that phishers are praying on people unhappy with Adobe Reader and are advertising fake software to replace it. Users are lured with promises of a free PDF reader alternative, but end up having their credit card details stolen."A little different to the usual PDF related e-mails, this [attack] doesn&r... |
7 July 2010
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A new scam circulating on Facebook is tricking users into disclosing their email credentials by falsely claiming they won a special gift from Zynga. Facebook's attempt to block the offending page has partially failed. Christopher Boyd, a security researcher from antivirus vendor Sunbelt Software, warns that som... |
2 July 2010
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A spam campaign that pushes adware and tries to steal the login credentials of Facebook users has hit the social-networking website for the third weekend in a row. The ruse this week is an alleged recording of a "naughty camera prank" that claims to be the most hilarious video ever. The attack comes in the form of a... |
29 May 2010
06:49 GMT |
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