Security experts are warning about a sinister new type of malware that attempts to trick people into falling or bogus refund requests. Once the malware infects a PC, it stays dormant until the user logs on to an online banking account. As soon as that’s detected the malware goes to work. First, a fake message more »

I’m one of the 62,000 people whose email addresses and passwords were stolen and posted publicly by Lulzsec. I don’t know what site they got it my info from as they’ve refused to give much in the way of details except to say they hacked many popular websites including GMail, World of Warcraft, and Yahoo. more »

Not long after the news broke that Britain’s Prince William plans to marry long time girlfriend Kate Middleton, hackers started pumping out spam and poisoning search results related to the event. Within 24 hours of the couple’s announcement, image search results for “Kate Middleton” had been poisoned with links leading to “friefox.ddns.pl” which is a more »

Typosquatting is nothing new. For years scammers have been snatching up domain names that are common misspellings of popular websites like Twitter and Facebook. These domain usually display nothing but ads in hopes that the traffic gained by people who make typos will result in ad revenue for them. Recently however there has been a more »

Security researchers say the Rustock botnet has ended its experimenting with transport layer security. It’s believed the botherders tried it as a way of hiding their activity but decided the burden it placed on bandwidth and processing speed was too great. The botnet is currently responsible for over 40% of the world’s spam volume, most more »

Researchers from AVG took a look inside a mini-Zeus botnet called Mumba and found it was storing 60GB of stolen information. This information included bank account numbers, credit card numbers, log on credentials for social networking sites, even emails. blockquote>“Detected by AVG security products, the “Mumba” botnet was found to be using four different variations more »

Three men have been arrested in Slovenia in connection with the Mariposa botnet. Mariposa was disabled last year but had managed to infect several million computers before it was laid to rest. It stole personal information and launched several Denial of Service (DDoS attacks). For awhile it managed to avoid detection by rapidly changing its more »

Researchers have discovered that a Russian gang is conducting a check counterfeiting operation using money mules and the Zeus botnet. The botnet was used to pump out spam advertising lucrative sounding ads advertising “payment processor” jobs, harvest email addresses from job search sites like Monster and Careerbuilder, steal check images from sites that store them more »

A new spam campaign is using Amazon to deliver malware. The emails look just like a notification from Amazon and tell the recipient that in order to continue their Amazon Delivers newletter subscriptions they must click on a link to verify their email address. The link leads to a malicious URL that pushes malware designed more »

It’s a jungle out there. Every time you register on a website, buy something from an online retailer, do your banking, use Paypal, sell something on Ebay or Craigist, or do any of the online things most people take for granted, your personal info lands on the web. Scammers know this and are constantly coming more »