Kelihos botnet operator was technical expert at Antivirus companyJanuary 24th, 2012
Yesterday Microsoft reported about surprising findings in one of Russian antivirus firms – according to the announcement, one of its former technical experts, Andrey N. Sabelnikov, was found to be included in a coordination of the global spam machine called the Kelihos botnet. Thanks to Microsoft, this Botnet was taken down one year ago. More...
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Don’t fall for Metropolitan Police misleading alertJanuary 17th, 2012
Metropolitan Police alert, also called the Ukash virus, is one of the latest scams that are used for trying to swindle the money from PC users. This scam, also distributed in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and other languages, is even capable to lock the desktop on the compromised machine for making its victim believe that he has really made something illegal, like watching videos with adult content or banned scenes against other people. However, Metropolitan Police international affair should be ignored no matter how trustworthy it may look for you. More...
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SpyEye trojan is used to hide fraudulent money transfersJanuary 10th, 2012
Some months ago we have warned you about the dangerous banking trojan called SpyEye. Additionally to its malicious features, such as HTML injection and others, it has been also found to have another feature helping for the scammers to hide the fraud and all the changes made on the compromised acount. This seems to be borrowed from Zeus trojan. More...
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Clickjacking scams are still used on FacebookJanuary 4th, 2012
New Year has come and hackers have started spreading new scams on Facebook. This time it’s another clickjacking scam that has been noticed circulating on this social network. Using the curiosity of Facebook users, it tricks them into clicking on links pretending to be liked by their friends. More...
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Be Sure to Avoid Au Pair/Nanny ScamsDecember 22nd, 2011
If you are looking for a job, don’t fall into those emails that spread around offering unreal nanny/au pair job offers that can be turned down only by the crazy ones. Promising £2700 per month plus £700 per week for expenses and many other things for carting two kids to school, these letters are clearly used by scammers to swindle the money. Who knows how many letters have been spread?
Such scam letters include such and similar good-looking points:
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Your job is not a hard one,I do not believe in supervising or monitoring people to do their job. More...
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FTC provides refunds to Winfixer, family of malwares, victimsDecember 15th, 2011
According to FTC (Federal Trade Commission), 320. 000 PC users who have paid for the malwares from Winfixer family will be mailed a check with a refund this week. This group of rogue anti-spywares was actively spreading around on 2007-2008 and tricking users into believing that their computers are heavily infected with viruses. More...
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Don’t fall into the latest Amazon scamDecember 6th, 2011
Some weeks ago scammers managed to distribute hundreds of letters misleadingly claiming that recipient’s Amazon. com account will expire soon and that it will be deactivated. No matter that such messages look trustworthy, this is a true example of spam campaign which is used for nothing else but making unaware PC users give their credentials away by filling in the attached form. More...
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FBI reports about modified Trojan ZeuS versionDecember 2nd, 2011
According to FBI, computer crooks have begun launching new type of cyber attacks that use a modified version of Trojan ZeuS. Named as ‘Gameover’, it helps for scammers to steal victim’s personal information and use it for illegal purposes, such as accessing his PC and network and making unnoticeable money transfers. Security experts report that thefts have started just after the spam campaigns that have been illegally using National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) name. More...
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Don’t fall into two blonde women screensaver scam on Facebook!November 30th, 2011
Scammers keep using Facebook for distributing their malware. The latest threat users should be aware about is the worm which has started actively infecting computers worldwide through misleading link promising a screensaver of two blondes. The first ones who noticed this malware on this social network are Danish security researchers from CSIS. More...
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Multi-name rogues renew their activityNovember 29th, 2011
We must warn you about an updated version of multi-named rogues that were noticed by our researchers in the middle of June, 2011. All these viruses belong to the Braviax family that trends to release rogue anti-spywares that have identical GUI and similar names, changing according to the OS version (XP, Vista or Windows 7). Win 7 Antispyware 2012, Vista Antispyware 2012 and other scams from this group use the same backdoor infiltration techniques that typically include Trojans for their secret infiltration. More...
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