According to security researchers, cyber-criminals are unyielding as they keep garnering account credentials related to various Internet services, and currently, they are executing a robust phishing e-mail scam aimed at users of Apple the software giant, reported softpedia.com dated August 22, 2014.Typically, the e-mails are spoofed and this time they impersonate...Read Full Article
Bitcoin Phishing Scam Hits Over 400 BusinessesProofpoint, the e-mail security company situated in California has just exposed one Bitcoin phishing scam that of late targeted over 400 organizations while attempting at deceiving end-users into giving away personal passwords of their Bitcoin purse.A minimum of 12,000 phishing e-mails were dispatched within dual outbreaks to the organizations belonging...Read Full Article
Scammers Exploiting Ebola Epidemic in Phishing CampaignsAccording to security firm Symantec, cyber crooks are now using new and innovative methods to compromise PCs as people have started to become more aware of common cyber attacks. One of the latest evolutions of attacks is infecting PCs with phishing emails consisting latest news around like Ebola virus epidemic which hit the news worldwide.Ebola is a viral...Read Full Article
Amazon Phishing E-mails Resurface to Hit Unwitting InternautsAccording to security researchers, phishing e-mails purporting to be from Amazon, an e-commerce firm of multinational stature and based in USA, have yet again surfaced as they strike unwitting Internauts, reports softpedia.com dated August 13, 2014.Displaying a header - "Congratulations! You Are the Winner of a Discount Coupon...Read Full Article
Patriottalon.com reported on 13th August, 2014 stating that IT Security Office of the University of Texas or UT, a coeducational public university located in Texas, Tyler, United States, have urged its employees to be cautious of scam emails purporting to be from it.Patriottalon.com reported on 13th August, 2014 quoting an email from Chris...Read Full Article
A scam electronic mail has been detected circulating all over USA telling recipients they're about to be arrested, reported ksat.com during the end-week of July 2014.Telling that there's an arrest warrant the e-mail sender has got against the e-mail recipient's name, the message requests that the user call fast prior to the filing...Read Full Article
Security firm Malwarebytes says that a new phishing scam purporting to be from Facebook has been spotted which is trying to steal login credentials for the Facebook account and email account of the user.Jovi Umawing, Researcher with Malwarebytes, discovered that the message contains a link which purports to direct to a Facebook...Read Full Article
One fresh Internet scam has hit employees of Durham, North Carolina, USA based Duke University, reported abc11.com in news on July 22, 2014.Looking extremely real, the scam distributes one fake e-mail pretending to be a Duke Human Resources...Read Full Article
Softpedia.com reported on 16th July, 2014 quoting a warning by security experts as 'spammers are presently running a campaign of phishing email targeting dupe users of iTunes software of giant Apple. 'The fake email entitled "Important message...Read Full Article
Abc15.com reported on 17th July, 2014 stating a warning by authorities after a man from Prescott Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona, US lost more than 8,700USD through a scam email involving a female who claimed to be stranded in Nigeria...Read Full Article
Softpedia.com reported on 14th July, 2014 quoting a warning by experts as "A new phishing email campaign tries to steal credentials of users of LinkedIn. "The credentials of these accounts are more valuable than Facebook users because...Read Full Article
Kitv.com reported on 12th July, 2013 that Longview Police department, Texas, US is warning East Texans about a fake email targeting Texas Bank and Trust customers.Texas Bank and Trust customers and employees are getting emails...Read Full Article
Softpedia.com on 10th July, 2013 quoted Dynamo's Blog that a new tax-themed malware-ridden spam email campaign impersonating US's Electronic Federal tax Payment System (EFTPS) is currently targeting Internauts...Read Full Article
Securitywatch.pcmag.com quoted Jerome Segur, a Senior Researcher at Malwarebytes on 9th July, 2013 that spammers are becoming increasingly craftier at infiltrating websites.As per Segura, some spammers have sneaked past...Read Full Article
Security researchers are alerting Internauts about fake itinerary e-mails posing as communication sent from Expedia the travel booking agency, published softpedia.com dated July 9, 2013.The e-mail, displaying a header...Read Full Article
AppRiver the provider of web security and e-mail messaging solutions, of late, published its 2013 first half or H1-2013 Global Threatscape Report that states that when the company screened a total of fifteen billion e-mails, it found 13bn...Read Full Article
Websense the security company warns about cyber-crooks who're attempting at duping Internet-users into downloading malware that steals information, by distributing fake news reports in e-mails which supposedly arrive from Fox News...Read Full Article
Security researchers recently found a spate of spam mails crafted for enticing end-users towards accessing one fake operating system and browser questionnaire through an online survey. The spammers, with this, actually want to so deceive...Read Full Article
FBI has cautioned Internet users that online-criminals have been observed unleashing spear phishing assaults at an increasing rate towards hijacking systems of inter-connected PCs installed at organizations of a number of industry...Read Full Article
According to security researchers, as Google the popular search engine marks its 15th annum since launch, cyber-criminals are using the opportunity for celebrating in their own way by exploiting the name within an e-mail scam, reports...Read Full Article
Panama City, Florida (USA)-based Office of Bay County Sheriff (BCSO) has issued an alert to the general public for carefully handling any e-mail that claims as being sent from FedEx, globally known as the elite shipment delivery firm, published The News Herald...Read Full Article
Researchers at Avast the security company recently discovered an intriguing bulk e-mail scam that's distributing malware by cashing in on Facebook's popularity.The attack begins by dispatching e-mails captioned "Hi
Bogdan Boceanu, 30 and Andrei Bolovan 29 are two Romanians who have been imprisoned for 80, and 27 months respectively, for their involvement in a huge phishing scam that hit users of eBay and many financial companies, reported softpedia.com on...Read Full Article
A new phishing email attack is currently trying to con Yahoo users into handling over their account details, warn researchers with Zscaler ThreatLabz.The email has a spoofed FROM address (@yahoo.com) with title: "Last warning!! Update Now".The text of the phony...Read Full Article
BBB (Better Business Bureau) running under New York, US based Upstate recently got numerous phone-calls regarding a malicious e-mail campaign masquerading as BBB and asserting that certain BBB complaint was struck against the recipient. The e-mail...Read Full Article
BitDefender the security company has reported of genuine-appearing order substantiation e-mails during the end-week of May 2013 that seemingly arrived from Amazon.com the popular Internet retail shop about a 55-inch television, and hit Internauts randomly...Read Full Article
An incorrect warning telling Internauts that their account is currently locked is currently targeting Facebookers, as reported by softpedia.com on May 29, 2013.The message claims that the warning has been issued to all, and the recipient of the email is told...Read Full Article
Facebook security has intended to launch a Phishing email is again hitting inboxes of user's and they time they want to achieve for the big fish: pages are suitable to have followers more than that in private user, warns experts, published net-security...Read Full Article
FTC (Federal Trade Commission) lately declared a particular lottery event's outcomes namely the DV or Diversity Visa Lottery. However, the commission simultaneously cautioned people for remaining cautious of scam e-mails related to the Green Card...Read Full Article
According to Sophos the security company, spam mails carrying malicious software and posing as communication from Tiffany's & Co., the globally renowned jewelers, are presently circulating online.Displaying a caption, "Invoice copy" and...Read Full Article
The multinational retail chain of USA, Walmart lately cautioned customers to remain watchful about one fresh phishing e-mail scam that posed as coming from it, so published bostonherald.com, May 16, 2013.Captioned as "Thanks for your Walmart.com...Read Full Article
Clients of First Direct, an HSBC Bank unit, which facilitates Internet-based and telephone retail banking, have been urged for being vigilant of dubious e-mails, presently circulating online, published softpedia.com dated...Read Full Article
Cyber-criminals, around 4th-5th of May 2013, hacked into FOX21 News' e-mail server, reports Help Net Security dated May 7, 2013.It maybe noted that FOX21 runs under 20th Century Fox as a production arm for reality TV shows, is a film studio...Read Full Article
Since 2008, four times, technology firms and authorities have taken down the prolific Pushdo and Cutwail spam botnet. Yet it keeps resurrecting for more, as per security researchers, as published by threatpost.com dated May 15, 2013.In the beginning...Read Full Article
Security companies and many websites posting advisories on scams have cautioned Internauts of fake e-mails carrying malware which pose as Citibank Paymentech messages, published softpedia.com dated May 7, 2013.Bearing a header...Read Full Article
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