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Bitdefender researchers came across a Facebook scam that promises 10,000 eBay gift cards worth $200 (140 EUR) for users who complete a few “easy steps.” Unlike other schemes, where a simple Like and a Share are enough, in this situation the crooks request much more than that. They urge the unsuspecting ... |
14 February 2012
05:46 GMT |
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GFI’s VIPRE Report for January 2012 reveals that cybercriminals took advantage of every single hot topic to launch their malicious campaigns, targeting gamers, small businesses and even government organizations. Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and the Halo video game series represented great opportuni... |
9 February 2012
07:26 GMT |
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In 2009, studies revealed that there were 17.5 million Internet users that were aged 65 or more. Since then the number most likely increased considerably and continues to do so, especially with the rise of social media networks and other sites that may present an interest to senior citizens. While many people try to ... |
4 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Before the latest iPhone 4S was released, iPhone 5 scams were not uncommon. Now, many users are complaining that these types of schemes are making a comeback, even to the point of being sent via text messages, apparently coming from numbers used by legitimate institutions.
Sophos experts came across another variant ... |
30 January 2012
09:08 GMT |
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A genuine report made by MSNBC in which they show that some work at home jobs really work has become very popular among fraudsters that launch phony campaigns.
The Hacker News came across a site that almost perfectly replicates a CNBC website which advertises a fake make money from home job.
The site, cnbc.com-exc... |
27 January 2012
04:25 GMT |
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A movie’s popularity makes it an excellent topic that can be utilized by cybercriminals in their malicious campaigns. The fact that the Indian motion picture called Bodyguard was used in a recent phishing attack is a perfect example.
According to Symantec experts, the movie’s soundtrack was so popular th... |
27 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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While surfing the web, we often get a warning message from the browser, notifying that an extra plugin is needed to view certain content. Lately, instead of creating fake plug-ins, crooks started creating websites which contain elements that seem to genuinely belong to the browser.
Zscaler researchers have found tha... |
26 January 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Symantec researchers identified a large number of spam emails that still rely on New Year celebrations to spread bogus offers and other scams.
Instead of registering new domains they could use for their malicious campaigns, cybercriminals are relying on compromised websites to which they add a simple PHP script that... |
26 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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While hackers are generally regarded as the bad guys, a couple of iOS coders - Dustin and Sam - are sounding the alarm that a 5 dollar jailbreak tweak on Cydia is a complete ripoff.According to ChipHazard, the hackers were intrigued by the recent hype surrounding a 4S ‘Battery Fix’. One of them tested it ... |
26 January 2012
03:18 GMT |
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In December we’ve seen how cybercrooks compromised email addresses and sent out to all the individuals in the victim’s contact list distress emails, claiming they’ve been robbed while vacationing overseas and urgently needing money. At the time, the numbers of scam emails allegedly coming from frie... |
25 January 2012
02:48 GMT |
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We’ve recently seen that typosquatters recorded a high rate of success in their operations relying on this technique to promote their malicious websites and products. Researchers found another series of domain names registered for ill-intended purposes.
Websense experts came across site names such as victories... |
23 January 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Panda Labs researchers came across another wave of ransomware attacks that pose as official warnings from law enforcement agencies, threatening users that their systems are held hostage until a fine is paid.
The experts believe that a single cybercriminal gang may be behind the malicious operations that target citiz... |
19 January 2012
06:44 GMT |
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343 Industries, the developer of the upcoming Halo 4 shooter, has warned fans of the popular series to avoid any ads or pages that promise them access into the Halo 4 beta stage, as they’re completely fake.
The Halo franchise is the most popular series on the Xbox 360, so you can bet that millions of fans are ... |
19 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Today, on January 18, a lot of major websites, including Google, Reddit and Wikipedia, have shut down their regular activities or posted protest banners to show their solidarity with the anti-SOPA movement. Security experts warn that this may be a great opportunity for cybercriminals to launch their own SOPA-related ... |
18 January 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Google can't seem to catch a break these days. The Google+ integration into Google Search has been the hot topic of the week and people are still arguing about it, the vast majority of them criticising the move.Now comes the account of a Kenyan online company that has made some very serious accusations against G... |
13 January 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Malicious Android apps are not uncommon, but Trend Micro researchers stumbled upon a new version of an older fraudulent app that uses a series of tricks to convince the victim into paying a certain amount of money.
These ill-intended Game Dunga sites usually host adult content, mainly videos, which, when viewed by t... |
12 January 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Yesterday we've seen how twitter.com is the most targeted domain by typosquatters because the company failed to purchase the domain names that may be typed by mistake by their customers while rushing to access the site.
A perfect example is tvvitter.com, a site that requests access to your account and then auto... |
12 January 2012
06:09 GMT |
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After realizing that in many cases some social engineering can be far more efficient than a piece of malware that looks for zero-day vulnerabilities or unpatched weaknesses, cybercriminals began making phone calls to unsuspecting individuals, warning them of false threats and urging them to install specially crafted ... |
10 January 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Facebook members may come across a message which advertises a cool application that changes the color of their profile from blue to pink. It’s nothing but a survey scam that earns affiliate cash for the cybercriminals.
“This new year, facebook is trying out its new version "Pinkbook", so the first 10,000... |
6 January 2012
07:59 GMT |
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The North Korean dictator’s death is still a good story which cybercriminals rely on to spread their malicious schemes. The latest, promises a video of his death for anyone that clicks on an apparently innocent link.
ESET researchers from Latin America found a piece of malware being spread with the help of a Y... |
5 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The controversy related to Facebook’s new feature gave crooks the opportunity to launch their malicious campaigns by attracting unsuspecting users with phony apps that allegedly disable the Timeline.
Inside Facebook found a number of 16 different scam pages, all of them promising to keep users’ privacy s... |
5 January 2012
06:22 GMT |
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Unlike phishing scams where the victim is tricked into opening a link or a web form where he is required to provide financial or personal information, pharming schemes rely on webpages that almost perfectly replicate legitimate sites to which the user is taken without his knowledge.
In pharming operations, the cyber... |
25 November 2011
03:24 GMT |
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With news about Siri being hacked to do all kinds of tricks, I thought it would be appropriate to warn that none of the advertised jailbreak & unlock solutions out there will enable you to run the assistant on your older iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, no matter how much you want to believe them.Not that they will provid... |
21 November 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Facebook scammers have already begun to exploit the news that Facebook will launch a video chat service by luring users to fake apps.Facebook announced earlier this week that it will launch a video chat service on the social networking platform powered by technologies behind the popular Skype application.While this i... |
8 July 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Facebook scammers are luring users to surveys and trick them into spamming their friends with promises of free $25 Apple iTunes gift cards.The rogue messages posted from the victims' accounts read: "Free $25 Apple iTunes Giftcard. Limited time left, get yours now!"The advertised links take users to pages hosted ... |
6 July 2011
10:52 GMT |
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Google+ has generated a lot of buzz online during the past week prompting scammers to take advantage of people's interest into the platform.Google's new social networking project was launched in private beta mode last week, meaning that users can only join if they are invited by people who are already membe... |
6 July 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Facebook scammers are combining old techniques in new campaigns spotted on the social networking website, including clickjacking and registering rogue app pages.After a period of paste-this-code-type scams and fake pages hosted on external servers, affiliate marketing spammers are back to their old tricks, security r... |
1 July 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Scammers have started capitalizing on people's interest into yesterday's arrest of a British teenager allegedly associated with the notorious hacking outfit LulzSec.Rogue messages posted on the social networking site yesterday read "The Creator of LulzSec arrested in London (PHOTO TAKEN BY THE POLICE) SEE T... |
22 June 2011
07:03 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new clickjacking scam that spreads on Facebook by luring users with a video showing a baby being born.The spam messages posted by victims of this attack read: "Baby Born Amazing Effect - WebCamera" and contains a link that takes users to a page hosted at blogspot.com.The page displays a... |
28 May 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Affiliate marketing scammers are taking advantage of the media attention given to the large data breach at Epsilon in order to gather credit card information.Earlier this year, hackers managed to break into servers belonging to Epsilon, one of the largest email marketing providers in the world, and walked away with t... |
26 May 2011
13:33 GMT |
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Facebook scammers are tricking users to paste rogue code into their browser's address bars in order to get a Dislike button added to their options.The spam messages posted by victims read "Facebook now has a dislike button! Click 'Enable Dislike Button' to turn on the new feature!"The scammers are usin... |
17 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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A new viral scam is making the rounds on Facebook tricking users into distributing spam by falsely claiming they appear in a video posted on YouTube.The scam uses multiple spam messages including: "YO [name] why are you tagged in this video", "hey [name] i cant believe youre tagged in this video", "hey [name] you loo... |
16 May 2011
13:53 GMT |
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Scammers are managing to wreck havoc on Facebook by using a new trick to make malicious links appear as if they are part of the website's normal user interface.One scam spotted by security researchers from Sophos preys on people's fears and asks them to verify their account in order to prevent receiving spa... |
12 May 2011
12:44 GMT |
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Following black hat SEO campaigns and Facebook scams, Osama-themed attacks have extended to Twitter where links to videos of his death lead to malware.Security researchers from Kaspersky have monitored bin Laden's death coverage on Twitter and during the past 24 hours the number of related tweets averaged at 4,0... |
3 May 2011
14:38 GMT |
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Condé Nast, the company publishing Wired, Vogue, The New Yorker, QC, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and many other magazines and websites, was scammed out of $8 million with a single well crafted email.The swindler registered a company called Quad Graph, a name that is similar to that of Quad/Graphics, the firm handlin... |
6 April 2011
08:58 GMT |
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BioWare has issued a warning against pursuing or purchasing beta invitations in the wake of several Star Wars: The Old Republic scams, warning gamers to stay away from messages coming from the address reply@bioware.swtor.com and urging them to report any attempt to sell keys they come across.
Writing on the offici... |
22 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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A new likejacking attack is rapidly spreading on Facebook by tricking users with an allegedly shocking video of Emma Watson.The 20-year-old British actress, best known for her portrayal of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has a very strong fan base, particularly among minors.This makes her a very good tar... |
1 March 2011
11:33 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of disaster relief scams popping up following the series of recent earthquakes in New Zealand and advise people to contribute only to well known organizations.On September 4, 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Several aftershocks ha... |
28 February 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Security researchers have expressed concern about the increasing number of work-at-home scams circulating on social networking websites and tricking users into paying money for useless kits.Work-at-home easy-money scams are nothing new. They've been going around for years in various forms and using different tri... |
25 February 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Researchers from security vendor M86 Security have identified a serious cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RapidShare.com website which allowed attackers to potentially scam users.RapidShare is one of the largest file hosting providers on the Internet and with hundreds of millions of monthly visitors it ... |
21 February 2011
05:21 GMT |
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A new phishing attack targeting Facebook users is rapidly spreading via intriguing wall posts that try to lure people onto a fake page.According to Facecrooks, the wall posts read "Check it out here, Look at you haha:P" and are accompanied by an image from a public event.This social engineering trick, whose purpose i... |
21 January 2011
13:56 GMT |
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A new spam campaign lures Facebook users to a phishing page by tricking them with an alleged funny video of themselves.The spam messages read: "Heyy , What the heck are you doing in this video?? LOL!" and direct users to links of the form http://apps.facebook.com/[removed].People who fall for this social engineering ... |
4 January 2011
07:06 GMT |
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A new scam is making the rounds on Facebook and lures users with a shocking video allegedly showing a jealous guy taking revenge on his girlfriend.The spam messages spreading this scam read: "[BREAKING NEWS] - Shocking Revenge over Facebook Status!" and go on to claim that "jealous Boyfriend did this to his girlfrien... |
28 December 2010
03:44 GMT |
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It seems that nefarious entities are attempting to use the security issues linked to Gawker Media accounts, including those of known gaming blog Kotaku, to get their hands on account information for the very popular MMO World of Warcraft via the oldest trick in the book, an e-mail which prompts gamers to hand over th... |
15 December 2010
05:38 GMT |
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According to a report from Romanian antivirus vendor BitDefender, around one in five Facebook users get malicious URLs in their news feeds on the social networking platform.The data was gathered by the company's free Facebook security application dubbed safego, which was released on October 26.Once installed in ... |
23 November 2010
13:57 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn that a survey scam is spreading on Twitter by tricking users into retweeting messages that falsely advertise free gift vouchers.With the holiday season quickly approaching, a lot of people are looking for any deals and offers that can help them keep shopping expenses at the ... |
19 November 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of scam emails purporting to come from Adobe employees, who advise users to buy a fake upgrade for Adobe Reader.The emails bear a subject of "Action Required : Active Your New Adobe PDF Reader" and come from an “Adobe Support” <newsletter@adobe-download-center.com> addr... |
18 October 2010
13:43 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new Facebook scam is tricking users by promising them an application that allows viewing who visited their profile.The spam messages promoting this read: "See who viewed your profilee original version 2.0: now you can see who viewed your facebook profile [link]"A thumbnail of the Face... |
12 October 2010
02:34 GMT |
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A new scam is rapidly spreading on Facebook thanks to rogue apps that post messages about texting on the victims' walls without their knowledge. The attacks began over the weekend with spam messages that read "OMG! Im never going to send another text message again after seeing this! http://tiny.cc/[censored]"The... |
11 October 2010
09:41 GMT |
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A new Facebook scam is reusing an older theme about a girl who killed herself, but also employs a clickjacking trick that forces users to propagate it.Victims of this scam will end up unwillingly promoting a link to a page called "Girl killed herself, after her dad posted This to her Wall."When opened, this page disp... |
24 September 2010
06:40 GMT |
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