Spam and phishing

The promoted tool can allegedly generate Bitcoin keys to steal funds but installs info-stealing Trojan instead. More

With the release of Mozilla Firefox 72 in January 2020, users will stop seeing the "allow to show notifications" requests by default. More

After 10 years, Phorpiex botnet is still active. After being active for around 10 years, Phorpiex botnet has recently been delivering millions of sextortion messages to random users via email spam campaigns.More

Twitter 2FA mobile phone numbers and email addresses made reachable for Partner Audiences and Tailor Audiences advertising services. More

6,000 Yahoo email accounts of mostly young females got hacked in search for sexual images. More

A coordinated phishing campaign hit a yet unknown number of prominent YouTube influencers specializing in gaming, car industry, tech, and other topics. More

Phishing scam disguising as Venmo application is redirecting users to a fake website collecting personal and banking data. More

Malicious email campaign targeting USA, Germany, Poland, Italy, and the United Kingdom spotted delivering malware-loader Emotet. More

Iranian hacking group behind a new targeted email campaign 18 months after being charged for stealing academic data. More

281 business email compromise scammers caught in the USA, Nigeria, Turkey, Ghana, and other countries. More

Avengers star Robert Downey Jr. got his Instagram account hacked: crooks placed links to survey scam sites that asked for personal information. More

Scammers lured Cabarrus County government into transferring $2.5 Million to fake account: $1.7 Million remains lost. More

Security experts uncovered Facebook accounts that pushed malware to tens of thousands of people for the past five years. More

Israeli police arrested two brothers involved in Bitfinex hack and cryptocurrency-related campaigns. More

The City of Burlington falls victim in a phishing scheme that results in $503 000 transfer to a phony bank account. More