Phishing
Scammers hit the Pinterest site's users
By Gina on March 15, 2012 | Phishing
Survey spammers targeted new Pinterest site which enables users to share their sites with others. Pinterest enables users to create virtual corkboards. Users may Pin content from other web pages onto the virtual corkboards and then share their boards with others.Symantec researcher Nishant Doshi commented on this matter: "Scammers are posting images and links to “free offers” onto Pinterest boards. Read more.
Another Facebook scam: “OMG.. I Hate Rihanna”
By Bryan on March 13, 2012 | Phishing
There are 500 million active Facebook users – a fertile ground for cybercriminals to exploit their evil ways of earning money. This time in order to attack Facebook users, criminals utilize a name of a famous U.S. pop star - Rihanna. You already have or still might see a post on someone's Facebook wall named “OMG - I just hate RIHANNA after watching this video”. Read more.
New wave of attacks threatens websites hosted by WordPress
By Bryan on March 8, 2012 | Phishing
Websense report claim they have discovered a new, massive wave of attacks on websites using WordPress and other hosts by injecting a malicious code. Statistics show, that security of over 200.000 web pages has been compromised. Do you feel secure while browsing the web and visiting your favorite websites? A recent wave of attacks on WordPress proves that you must always be alert on the web. Cyber crimes of this type are nothing new; yet, they are dangerous if you are unprepared. Read more.
Trojan fixes library code. How weird is that?
By Gina on February 24, 2012 | Phishing
According to BitDefender researchers, a new trojan has been invading users' computers in a tricky way. It masquerades under the venerability in Windows code in order to stay active.Trojan.Dropper.UAJ doesn't act like usual malware but it takes advantage of Window's code flaw and patches the library file, comres.dll, which forces all applications that rely on it to execute the threat. Moreover, this tricky trojan makes a copy of the comres. Read more.
Love is... money! Valentine's Day scam
By Gina on February 13, 2012 | Phishing
As Valentine's Day is almost here, scammers are searching ways to make profit for their selves from unwary users that fall for rogue advertisements, offers and unexpected gifts that supposedly are given to you for free. One of such frauds was noticed today on Tumblr. This fraud is circulating on the site and is spamming $500 Victoria’s Secret giftcards to all its followers. Read more.
