This PC Will Self-Destruct in Ten Seconds

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt Phishing Trojans that try to remain below the radar are still prevalent, but a number of files coming through Threat Research point to a disturbing trend: Several ... Read more..

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..

Visa Targeted (Again) by Zbot Phishers

Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt The gang of malware distributors who are currently flooding the Internet with bogus Facebook “Update Tool,” CDC “H1N1 Flu Vaccination Profile,” and IRS “Tax Statement” emails and Web ... Read more..

Bogus “New Moon” Torrents Lead to Malware

Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt A week since the file-sharing clearinghouse Mininova changed its business model and deleted links to copyrighted material being shared over the peer-to-peer Bittorrent network, malware distributors continue to ... Read more..

Fake Zbot Site Poses as CDC H1N1 Flu Vaccine Info

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt The newest victim of the faux-Web-sites-posing-as-government-pages scam is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the same vein as fake pages supposedly hosted on the Web servers ... Read more..

Lazy Phishers Just Email the Phishing Web Page to You, Now

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt It was a particularly busy weekend for spammers, especially the creepy, evil ones who are trying to steal information (as opposed to the merely scungy pill vendors and ... 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..

Shields Up During National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Mike Kronenberg Be suspicious. About email swindles, bogus security products and online scams. I’m not kidding around. You need to pay attention and be diligent, because cyberthreats are lurking everywhere. What ... 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..

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