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Students Warned for being Vigilant of Loan Scam
Trading Standards warns students studying at different universities worldwide to watch out for an e-mail scam involving one deceitful student loan,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/14
Phishing Scam Using BBB’s Name Spreading Malware
According to a recent report by Sophos Labs, one new scam e-mail that poses as a message from BBB (Better Business Bureau) and has the agency's logo is
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/14
New Phishing E-mail Warns of IRS Penalty
Electronic mails posing as messages from Internal Revenue Service caution recipients that they've been penalized for exceeding the scheduled time-period
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Concern regarding Children’s Exposure to Malware to be Addressed
A study by Trend Micro shows that 25.6% of children aged 7-16 years have either taken down one computer-virus or inadvertently used web-links that led them
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/14
Trojan Malware Named as the Possible Offender
An IT expert Michael Nunn stated that a computer system at Orange's EFTPOS might've been hijacked when a PC-Trojan infected the shop's accounting
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/13
Pharmacy Spam Messages Pose as Originating from YouTube
Numerous scam electronic mails sent out sequentially, which pose as messages coming from YouTube, reportedly have been crafted to take unwitting receivers
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Malware Increasing through Personalized Assaults, Exploit Toolkits and Social Media: M86 Security
M86 Security in its security review of July-December, 2011 elaborates that cyber-threats had grown through advanced personalized assaults utilizing digital
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/13
FBI told about PC-viruses at City College
Officials from San Francisco's City College have drawn the attention of FBI to PC-viruses that out of criminal networks inflicted campus PCs, thus published
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/13
Revamp of Kelihos Botnet
Kelihos botnet was taken into control and destroyed during September 2011 by a joint effort under the supervision of Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab. The
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/11
Over 780 New Malicious Programs Focus Internet Banking Everyday: Kaspersky
Kaspersky Lab the security company claims that everyday over 780 fresh malicious programs get added to the total malware count to steal highly secret
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/11
MPs to Bear Greater Responsibility for Online Protection
According to the Common Science and Technology Committee, malevolent software or "malware" is increasingly presenting a threat to businesses in
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/11
BBC Discovers Fake E-mails Purporting Heir Hunter
The BBC has issued a warning to computer users to remain ever active and vigilant towards any of the scam e-mails that declares to be arising from a daytime
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/11
Virus Infection Disrupts Service of U.S Commerce Department’s EDA
A PC-virus, which attacked the computer-system of EDA (Economic Development Administration) of the U.S. Department-of-Commerce (DOC), has resulted in
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/10
Spamming at its Peak during Holidays or Popular Events
Spammers are taking advantage of the holiday season and the occurrence of major events towards making their e-mails appealing, as revealed in the Symantec
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/10
Newly-found Malware that Grabs Files, Uploads them Onto File-hosting Website
Trend Micro is cautioning of a fresh kind of malware that seizes Microsoft Excel and Word files from the contaminated computers followed with uploading them
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/10
New Malware Hitting Banking Institutions Rely on MitB Scheme
Computer hackers are now using a method for infringing upon the Internet-banking security of victims that's called MitB (Man-in-the-Browser). This method
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/10
Facebook Video Scam: World War III Begins
A new dimension to cyber crime was highlighted with the spreading of fake news of the commencement of World War III in the US for invading Iran and Saudi
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Marriott Hacker Gets Sentenced to Jail
A man from Hungary, on February 3, 2012, was punished with a 30-month jail sentence over a computer-hacking crime he committed against Marriott
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Lottery Scam Strikes E-mail Users of West Australia
An e-mail scam announcing users as lottery winners is targeting West Australia residents and deceptively acquiring their bank details and money, reports
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/9
DNSChanger Infects 50% of Fortune 500 Companies and More
Technology and services provider Internet Identity (IID) declared that 50% of the entire companies listed in Fortune 500 as well as prominent federal
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/9
‘Hitman’ E-mail Scam Affects Central Florida
Police detectives of Kissimmee (Florida, USA) have issued an alert to residents regarding one fresh e-mail scam that's circulating in central Florida
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/9
FBI Likely Deployed Spyware for Surveillance on MegaUpload
The Federal Bureau of Investigation within its indictment refers to conversations that transpired among Dotcom and other high profile managers of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/8
E-mail Supposedly Inviting to Conference, Serves Trojan
Security Companies Zscaler and Seculert independently detected assaults that recently utilized "MSUpdater Trojan" a RAT (Remote Access Tool)
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/8
Cidrex Trojan Opens E-mail ids in ‘Yahoo,’ Uses CAPTCHA to secure them
Security researchers from Websense found the banking Trojan Cidrex in a fresh variant, which in addition to contaminating PCs for ripping sensitive
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/8
Facebook Targeted with Valentine Attack Results in Malware
Trend Micro,
» SPAMfighter News - 2012/2/8
Phishing E-mail Supposedly from ATO Promises Tax Refund
Cyber-criminals possibly are still launching spam campaigns spoofing ATO (Australian Taxation Office) this season by distributing fake e-mails, which assure
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/7
Collaborated Effort towards Evading Spam
The social networking sites including Facebook, Google Inc, and Microsoft Corp integrated with financial organizations including the Bank of America Corp,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/7
Malware Assault Targets WordPress
M86 Labs the security company states that the infamous 'Phoenix' attack toolkit was recently found exploiting vulnerability within WordPress version 3.2.1,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/7
Drive-by Spam E-mails Suffices in Compromising Computers
Researchers at a German security firm, eleven, observed the inflow of a new spam that automatically downloads malware on a system at the immediate instance
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Beijing, the Hotspot Location for Sykipot Servers: Symantec
Inspection by experts at Symantec revealed the clues that hint at Beijing, China to be the prime location for the execution of the command and control
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/7
Spammers Camouflage Trojan to appear like Google+ Hangout Plug-in
Spammers, taking advantage of Google+, which attained some popularity, are distributing fraudulent electronic mails asking recipients to do a check out of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/6
PandaLabs’ Report Claims Record High Malware Creation in 2011
On January 31, 2012, PandaLabs released the 2011 security report it publishes every year. According to it, there's been a new unprecedented rise in malware
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Fake Browser Update Websites Serve Malicious Trojans
According to GFI Software, phony websites offering "browser upgrades" are presently getting utilized for serving malicious software and diverting
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/6
As Bot-masters continue abundantly, the Kelihos Resurges
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab the security company disclose that the technique with which they stopped the Kelihos/Hlux bonnet from operating is called
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/6
Unusual Malware Obtainable from Romanian Social Welfare Website
Legitimate websites that have been compromised normally deliver malicious software, which reaps monetary gains to its peddlers; however, exceptions may
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/4
PC Virus Attacks IU Health Goshen Hospital Server
A Health Goshen Hospital in northern Indiana has issued an alert to job applicants as well as patients, numbering over 12,800 that a PC-virus might've
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FDA Employees File Lawsuit, Claiming the Agency Used Spyware against Them
FDA scientists have filed a lawsuit against the organization, claiming that it intercepted their private e-mails as well as clandestinely loaded and ran
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/4
Ascend Media Litigated by Facebook for Malware and Scam
The state of Washington and facebook had filed separate grievances against a US ascend media LLC asserting it to spread malware through facebook and
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Student should be Beware of the Emailed Job Offer
A number of enquiries related to unwanted emails received by k-state stating to be from College Board and offering the jobs to the students, according to
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/3
Sheriff Cautions Grant County Citizens about New Phishing E-mail
On January 28, 2012, Tom Jones, Sheriff of Grant County issued an alert to everyone regarding one fresh phishing e-mail that was attempting at stealing
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/3
FS-ISAC, BITS Initiate Fight against Increasing Spam
Trusted E-mail Registry, a part of the technology policy unit namely BITS belonging to The Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Financial Services
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Drive-by Downloads Observed in Over 50% of Malware Assaults
Sophos the company for data protection and IT security, which released its new "Security Threat Report 2012," evaluates in detail the threat
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Symantec Study Shows Substantial Fall in Malware-Ridden Internet Sites
According to Symantec, which recently released its Intelligence Report for 2012, there were 2,102 websites daily throughout January 2012 which hosted
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/2
Spammers Targeting Major Events for Spam Circulation
According to the January 26, 2012 findings by Symantec Corp. in a Symantec Intelligence Report, more than 10,000 exclusive domain names containing a
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/2
Microsoft Investigators Uncover Fresh Malware of Treacherous Kind
Microsoft's security investigators have found one fresh kind of malware, which when downloaded, seems to behave innocuously, however, dupes security
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/2
Malevolent MIDI Files Result in Downloading of Rootkit
Trend Micro has recently warned that Web-surfers are being enticed for visiting a malevolent site that cyber-criminals are exploiting to install malicious
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Abundant Harvest of Mac Malicious Programs in 2011, Says Intego
According to Intego the security company, which released its latest report -"Year in Mac Security 2011," the year witnessed the highest level of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/2
Phishing Scam Masquerades as SaskTel
SaskTel has issued an alert to its e-mail clients for being vigilant of one fresh phishing scam, which maybe stealing their private details. The StarPhoenix
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After the Sudden Rise in Cybercrime, Israel is in the Frame
A major portion of malware, has initiated from the country during the last three weeks (first three weeks of January 2012) during the so called cyber
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Cyber Assault Aiming at Defense Department’s Access Cards Sourced to China
Service members are reportedly getting an e-mail that has a formal-appearing PDF file infected with one new PC-virus facilitating keystroke logging, says
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/1
BitDefender Finds Fresh Threat that’s Mixture of Malicious Programs
BitDefender, which analyzed 10m contaminated files, found approximately 40,000 samples of "Frankenmalware." Reportedly, these samples represent
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/2/1
Virus Infection on Factory Control Systems Brings Down Operations
The Ministry of Economics, which conducted a recent investigation, found ten-or-more control systems that handled the manufacturing process at automobile as
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/31
Gifted Scam Alert for Glen Eira
An e-mail scam purporting in the bayside area arriving from the African refugee constitutes a huge amount of money ($ 6 Million) and requires a foreigner's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/31
Hackers Steal Over $19,000 Out of a Salem County Bank Account
Computer-hackers reportedly infiltrated an online bank account at Salem County holding around $13m to steal about $19,000 via executing unauthorized
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/31
Entering Keyword “Download Chrome” in Google Search may Produce Malware
Security investigators at Websense are cautioning Web-surfers that doing an online search for the keyword "download Google Chrome," may lead to
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/31
E-mail Scams Purporting Closed Acquaintance in Circulation
The Australian Government is warning its citizens on a regular basis on e-mail scams, purporting to be coming from closed acquaintances on issues of being
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/30
BitDefender Presents Latest Malware Report
BitDefender the security company, which recently was awarded, predicts that there'll be a 23% expansion in malware during 2012 counting to 90,000,000
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/30
Spam Declining Trend Continued into 2011, Says Cisco
Cisco SIO reports that during August 2010-November 2011, the total e-mail junk declined from over 379bn e-mails to approximately 124bn e-mails daily,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/30
Russian Father and Son Indicted with Elaborate Card Fraud
A man from Russia along with his son is accused of committing multiple frauds following a declaration by the U.S. authorities of an indictment that
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/30
‘Anonymous’ deceptively makes Onlookers Attack DOJ
Anonymous modified its voluntary bot called Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) so it wasn't that voluntary, as it drafted unwitting journalists, onlookers, as also
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/30
Tax-related Scam E-mails Serve Malware
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States set off January 4, 2012 as the first date of the season for filing tax returns. Not waiting longer,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/28
Reader Digest India Targeted by Phishing Attacks
A report from trend micro has disclosed one such phishing event which engage reader digest India. This attack engaged email messages seeming t be sent by
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/28
New Sykipot Trojan Variant May Compromise Smart-cards
A researcher from AlienVault Labs claims he discovered one sample of the Trojan virus Sykipot which helps in hijacking the Common Access Cards (CACs) of the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/28
Cisco Presents Overview of Web Malware of Q4-2011
Cisco the security firm, on January 24, 2012, published its Global Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2011 (Q4-2011), presenting the statistical data
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/28
Microsoft Declares Man behind Kelihos Botnet
According to Microsoft, it has been able to trace the person responsible for the Kelihos network of bots, which contaminated PCs with viruses for gaining
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/27
Fresh Zeus Sample, ‘Citadel’ Supports Dissatisfied Clients
According to Brian Krebs, he recently encountered one fresh strain of ZeuS the notorious Trojan stealing banking credentials, named 'Citadel.' Citadel's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/27
DNSChanger Contaminates PCs, Snaps Internet Access
A largely prevalent malware campaign that dropped a Trojan during the recent years has been the DNSChanger campaign, which involved altering the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/27
‘Gameover’ Malicious Program Traced to ZeuS’ Creator
An e-mail scam, which has been spreading fast, distributes phishing messages pretending to be from FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), the Federal
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/27
POC Virus, used in Man-in-the-Browser Attack, Manipulates Banking Transactions
CTO Yash K.S. with Red Force Labs demonstrated a virus, which's capable of gaining total control over the IE web-browser so as to tamper with HSBC Bank
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/26
Japanese Police Arrest One-click Billing Scammers
The cyber police unit of the Kyoto Prefectural Police declared that suspects had been arrested following accusation that they infringed upon Japan's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/26
Phony Traffic Ticket Notice to Seattle Drivers Opens Malware
The e-mail that poses as sent from the U.S' Seattle DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) as also asserts that one traffic ticket has been provided for the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/26
HMRC Cautions about Scam E-mails on Taxpayers’ Self Assessment
HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs) has urged advisors to caution emigrant consumers for keeping vigil about getting victimized with phishing e-mails
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/26
Xerox Scanned Documents Conceal Blackhole
The sinister method through which online crooks dispatched e-mails posing as originating out of an office premises' scanner has yet again revived, attacking
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/25
Ransomware Pretends to be Law Enforcement, Demands Monetary Penalties
Panda Labs the security company said that its researchers had detected one more series of ransomware assaults, which pretended to be formal alerts that
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/25
Phishing E-mails Spoofing BBB Reappear
Another e-mail scam has surfaced, yet again utilizing the name of BBB as well as having the tagline: 'Start With Trust,' as it inundates inboxes nationwide.
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/25
Indian Wi-Fi Users Prone to Virus Assaults: CERT-In
Computer security experts in India have spotted as well as cautioned Wi-Fi users nationwide to be wary of a potential PC-virus capable of damaging protected
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/25
Romania’s President Traian Basescu Quits- Latest Topic of Virus Attack
Bit Defender issues a warning about a latest malicious software distribution scheme that employs the alleged resignation of President Traian Basescu of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/24
Koobface Gang Working Unrestrictedly
Five men, supposed to be guilty of circulating a tarnished virus-- Koobface worm on social networking sites like Facebook, were noticed in St. Peterburg,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/24
North Korea Possibly Invaded Seoul University E-mail Accounts
According to officials at Seoul University, it's suspected that North Korea masterminded a hack attack during 2011 to target the university graduates'
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/24
F-Secure Study Shows Increase in Fresh Mac E-threats
Security investigators from F-Secure the security company recently compiled a report that indicates how new threats have been evolving over the last nine
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/24
Fresh Trojan Tricks Facebook Members into Giving Away Account Details and Cash
A Trojan called Carberp created for filching banking details was recently circulating online, with its latest version customized for stealing voucher
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/24
Viruses Found on Computers at City College
Officials of a community college in San Francisco stated that its PC-networks recently contracted a viral infection, which illicitly transmitted students'
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/23
Spoofed FBI E-mail Tricks Recipients into Surrendering Personal Information
The most recent fraudulent e-mail under a 419 scam poses as a message from Timothy P. Murphy, Executive Deputy Director of FBI blaming recipients of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/23
Police Rescue Two South Koreans whom E-mail Scammers Kidnapped
Police in South Africa recently saved a man as well as his daughter from the clutches of Nigerian kidnappers following the two's arrival in the country so
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/23
Phishing Scams Rely on Google Docs
SophosLabs has recently detected twin spam campaigns during the 3rd-weekend of January 2012 that exploits Google Docs as support for their phishing
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Virus Strikes Computer at Japan’s Space Agency
A computer system at JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) equivalent to the U.S. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has contracted a
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/21
US Homeland Security Attacked by Chinese Cyber Crooks
Cybercriminals from China have assigned a novel virtual weapon which targets the department of homeland security (DHS), the defense department, and various
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/21
American Drone Controls Experiencing Virus Assault Migrate to Linux
After the control systems of American military drones became contaminated with Windows USB viruses in 2011, there has been a shift of these control systems
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‘Sality’ Virus Contaminated over 4.2m PCs across Vietnam
According to researchers working with the Bkav Security Company, over 4.2m PCs across Vietnam contracted infection from the W32.Sality.PE virus during 2011,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/21
The Case of Two most Visited Gaming Websites
According to the Avast Virus Lab, its security researchers recently found numerous websites that had contracted infection from attack toolkits, Trojans as
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/20
Symantec Sued for deceptively making Clients Purchase its Products
A consumer of Symantec Corp's products sued the company over accusation it utilized free diagnostic schemes towards deceptively persuading clients for
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/20
Fake Pharmaceutical Websites Promoted through LinkedIn Spam
Spam mails apparently circulating across LinkedIn the business-related website for social networking inform recipients of somebody who has written to them,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/20
Adobe Fixes Six Crucial Flaws within Acrobat and Reader
Adobe has issued security patches for 6 critical flaws within its Acrobat and Reader applications, with 2 being zero-day vulnerabilities that affected its
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/20
Taxpayers of Northampton Township get IRS-spoofed Phishing E-mail
A fraudulent, phishing e-mail posing as a message from IRS, the U.S. tax agency, is presently circulating online as it targets unwitting people paying taxes
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/19
Spam Messages Connect with QR Codes
The ThreatSeeker Network of Websense recently spotted one spam campaign, which relies on QR Codes described as a barcode's 2D variant. The company, which
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/19
Shnakule’s Finding Demonstrates Increasing Refinement of Cyber-crime
An extremely sophisticated and an enormous-sized 'malnet,' meaning malware network, named Shnakule has been discovered that prompted a few security
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/19
North Dakota AG Cautions about E-mail Scam
Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney General of North Dakota has issued an alert to everyone for being vigilant about an old phishing e-mail campaign, which's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/19
Cyber-crooks Exploit Video Game, Pro Evolution Soccer 2012
Researchers from GFI Software warn that the eleventh time revised sequence from Konami namely Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 in addition to being gamers'
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/19
Siemens’s Factory Link Error Permits Hackers to Implement Random Code
Two vulnerabilities discovered by the researcher Kaung-chun hung of Taiwan's information and communication security technology center (ICST) which affect
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/1/18
Phishing E-mail Scam Attacks US-CERT
US-CERT the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team reports that it's presently a target of an enormous phishing campaign. SCMagazine.com.au
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