Tag Archives: malware

Malware developers seem to appreciate a little humor when it comes to naming their schemes. One of the latest email scams to invade inboxes everywhere is no exception, it seems, and the FBI has been quick to let businesses know …

FBI Declares ‘Gameover’, Link to ZeuS
   

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that …

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau
   

Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong

Several new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild. The first one is a new incarnation of an old scam. Emails that look like they’ve come from your friends arrive with an urgent message about them being on a trip to …

Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong
   

The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’
   

This week, a phishing attack landed in the inboxes of several US government agencies, spoofing the US government’s cyber security watchdog and response agency. Complete with attachments, the e-mail’s payload was a nasty little virus that has already been tracked …

US-CERT Hooked by US-CERT Phishing Attack
   

Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?

As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?
   

In Part 2 of our look at what you can expect in the coming year, faint rumblings out of Japan suggest that one prediction from Part 1 of this article has already come true. If the very real prospect of …

Bold Predictions for 2012 (Part 2)
   

In a turn of events appropriate for the most tumultuous year in cybercrime, 2011’s body is barely cold and we’re already smelling something suspicious from its decomposing carcass. Rumors of two worms, one well-known and the other relatively new on …

Looking Back At 2011 And Bold Predictions for 2012 (Part 1)
   

Lump of Coal Edition: When Scammers Attack

While the fat man in the red suit has already signed-off on his naughty or nice list, there’s one nasty little child holed up somewhere in Russia who needs to get a large lump of coal in his stocking this …

Lump of Coal Edition: When Scammers Attack
   

If Dr. Seuss Was a Spammer

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to take a look back at the year in spam than poke a little fun at the moronic state of the crap that invades our inboxes? In a …

If Dr. Seuss Was a Spammer