Sophos has warned twitter customers of a possible phishing scam. Sophos warns not to visit website linked by other twitter friends. Many of these sites are bogus and will trick the user to enter the twitter user name and password. Many of these tweets are so tempting like “Hey, i found a website with your [...]
No, in fact those CNN e-mail alerts that you are receiving these days are not CNN alerts at all! It is another clever ruse of the criminals to (mis)use the CNN tag to infect your computer. It has been reported recently by RSA Security that there is a new form of phishing e-mail which purport [...]
A nice simple video that explains you (ie: your parents or grand parents) how to avoid phishing scams. Check it out
Hackers and spammers taking advantage of the recent economic crisis are sending out phishing emails to hack into customers bank accounts. It’s reported that emails are arriving at customers email box asking them to update their financial information at the new website. “We recently purchased ABC Bank. Due to concerns for the safety and integrity [...]
Zombie or zombie computers are becoming the number one source of all malware and spam attacks. A zombie is a computer attached to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker or a computer virus. Zombies are commonly used for Sending spam Hack other computers Denial of service attacks Advertisement click fraud Phishing websites [...]
A new Web attacks is now in the wild. It’s named clickjacking – as discussed at the OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference. Clickjacking is actually clipboard hijacking by adobe flash player on various browsers. We all see various types of advertisements on many website. One thing that you need to notice from now on is [...]
YTFakeCreator a new tool now available in p2p network creates fake youtube pages and convince the user to download some additional plugins to play the video. The malware that’s distributed include Trojans, virus and spyware. This does not spread on it own, the attacker must distribute the link manually. The malware detected by panda security [...]
Just got an email like this and hope it is one of the newest scam out there. “China domain copyright protection scam”. The company wants to warn that our domain name is in danger and some company in china is allegedly trying to register china specific TLDs. This is the first time that we are [...]