Security researchers warn about new phishing attacks targeting Tumblr users that have already compromised thousands of accounts.Users are lured with messages promising them adult content, however, when they click on the advertised links, they are redirected to fake Tumblr login pages that read "This page contains adu... |
28 June 2011
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Security researchers analyzing the new Waledac botnet, which appeared at the beginning of this year, discovered that so far it managed to steal as much as 500,000 POP3 email credentials.Waledac is considered to be the successor of the infamous Storm worm which ruled the threat landscape in 2007 and 2008.The Waledac b... |
2 February 2011
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While investigating a basic phishing attack, security researchers from GFI Sunbelt have discovered a public cache containing almost 3,000 stolen Facebook credentials.Sunbelt researcher Christopher Boyd was looking into a rudimentary FarmVille phish, consisting of a blank a plain HTML with only a username/password for... |
16 September 2010
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Security researchers warn that the names listed in Facebook's people directory can be used to link the corresponding accounts to stolen email addresses and passwords already available on the Internet. According to a test performed at BitDefender, the info can be matched with a 87% accuracy.A security researcher ... |
3 August 2010
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Symantec security researchers have located a server hosting a database of 44 million stolen online gaming logins. The credentials were lifted from infected computers with the help of an information-stealing trojan and were most likely being sold on the underground market. The massive cache was discovered after analy... |
28 May 2010
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The online system of a large U.S. payroll processing company was attacked by hackers for the second time in a few weeks. Stolen credentials were used to create fake employees for companies in an attempt to siphon out funds out of their accounts.Onlineemployer.com, an online system belonging to PayChoice, one of the l... |
19 October 2009
10:07 GMT |
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