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Article | 26/04/2013 Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks
Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to ...
Article | 24/04/2013 Recently patched Java flaw already targeted in mass attacks, researchers say
A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scar...
Article | 1/04/2013 Ransomware leverages victims' browser histories for increased credibility
The authors of police-themed ransomware have started using the browsing histories from infected computers in order to make their scams more believable...
Article | 26/03/2013 Romanian citizen sentenced to five years in phishing scheme
A 28-year-old Romanian man was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for his role in a phishing scheme, as part of a seven-year investigation b...
Article | 21/02/2013 Twitter implements DMARC standard to fight phishing
Twitter has implemented DMARC, a standard for preventing email spoofing, in order to make it harder for attackers to send phishing emails that appear ...
Article | 31/01/2013 Email attack exploits vulnerability in Yahoo site to hijack accounts
Hackers behind a recently detected email attack campaign are exploiting a vulnerability in a Yahoo website to hijack the email accounts of Yahoo users...
Article | 19/01/2013 Google sees one password ring to rule them all
Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form o...
Article | 24/12/2012 Chrome 25 will disable 'silently installed' extensions
Starting with version 25 of Google Chrome, browser extensions installed offline by other applications will not be enabled until users give their permi...
Article | 14/12/2012 SMS stealing apps uploaded to Google Play by Carberp banking malware gang
Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Me...
Article | 11/12/2012 Gang responsible for multimillion-dollar online auction fraud busted in Romania
Romanian authorities dismantled a cybercriminal ring that stole an estimated US$4 million from U.S. citizens by posting offers for non-existent items ...
Article | 10/12/2012 Police-themed ransomware speaks to victims -- literally
A new variant of a Trojan program called Reveton that prevents victims from using their computers and displays rogue messages from law enforcement age...
Article | 5/12/2012 Law enforcement agencies arrest six in online auto sales fraud
Police in Romania, the Czech Republic, the U.K. and Canada have arrested six Romanian citizens accused of advertising and selling nonexistent automobi...
Article | 4/12/2012 Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data
Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on...
Article | 15/11/2012 US agencies target bogus business opportunities
Three U.S. agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogu...
Article | 13/11/2012 Phishing attack targets CloudFlare customers
Customers of the popular CloudFlare website acceleration and security service were targeted in an email attack that directed them to a fake version of...

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