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..

Social Nets Put Your Privacy at Risk

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Mike Kronenburg Attention Facebook and Twitter users: You’re still at risk. Last year, our survey found that lots of people using social networking sites were taking the risk of financial ... Read more..

Twitter Phish Floods Network with Short URLs

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt All day, I’ve been getting reports from my Twitter-using friends and acquaintances that they’ve been receiving tweets of short URLs. I took a look and it looks like ... Read more..

Phishing Campaign Targets Frequent Fliers

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt A variation of a phishing scam aimed at members of American Airlines’ AAdvantage program is circulating again. With links to a phishing Web site embedded in a spam ... 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..

How Phishers Target WoW Players

Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt, Curtis Fechner, and Grayson Milbourne Yesterday, at the opening of our BlizzCon coverage, we showed you just how commonly phishers target WoW players by posting innocuous-looking links in ... 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..

If You’ve Got Game, Phishers Want Your Stuff

Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt Since the beginning of the year, my colleagues in the Threat Research group and I have been researching an absolutely astonishing volume of phishing Trojans designed solely to ... Read more..