8 Tips for Filing Taxes Online Safely

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Mike Kronenberg Getting ready to file your taxes online — and doing it at the last minute? Well, cyber-scammers are ready for you. Thieves are schemers, and they’ve got a ... Read more..

Botnet Trojan Adds “Gootkit” Code to Web Pages

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt An insidious new Trojan that finds its way onto Windows PCs in the course of a drive-by infection employs a novel method to propagate: It connects to Web ... Read more..

Outlook “Patch” Spam Leads to Keyloggers

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt Hot on the heels of the spam campaigns involving emails which purport to come from the IRS, HMRC, and from your IT department comes another round of fake ... Read more..

IRS Tax “Warning” Fraud Crosses the Pond, Targets the UK

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt For several months, we’ve been seeing spam and phishing Web sites which purport to be IRS notifications of delinquent non-payment of income taxes. Who can blame the fraudsters ... Read more..

Trojan Decodes Captchas Using Stolen Commercial Tools

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt A new Trojan quietly circulating in the wild uses components from a commercial optical character recognition (OCR) application to decode captchas, those jumbled-text images meant to help a ... Read more..

One Click, and the Exploit Kit’s Got You

Friday, September 18th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt After all the brouhaha surrounding the NYTimes.com website hosting ads which spawned rogue antivirus Fakealerts last weekend, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at so-called exploit ... Read more..

“Shipping Confirmation” Malware on the Rise

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt As autumn approaches, the world typically sees an increase in the number of online shopping trips, as people take advantage of bargains from late-year sales, and prepare for ... Read more..

The WoW Catphishers are Biting

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt The body’s barely cold from last week’s BlizzCon, but the script kiddies who write phishing kits have been hard at work putting their best foot forward, crafting account-stealing ... Read more..

Steam Users Targeted by Phishers

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt A phishing campaign that started around the beginning of the year, targeting gamers who use Valve Software’s Steam network, continues unabated but with a twist: The phishers have ... Read more..

Gamers: Fight the Phishers

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt Last week, I posted a blog item that explained how gamers face a growing security threat in phishing Trojans — software that can steal the passwords to online ... Read more..

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