Be advised cybercriminals are at it again, leveraging the popularity of Facebook and YouTube to scam consumers.We have seen several scams in the past spreading through Facebook promising of some leaked video of celebrities, or free Facebook T-shirts etc. The malware authors are making money by pay-per-click with these techniques. Users are tricked into clicking …
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As mentioned in our previous post, there’s an Internet Explorer (zero-day) remote code execution vulnerability being exploited in the wild which affects IE 8, as well as IE 6 & 7. Those versions of IE account for about one third of all desktop browser market share.Current exploitation is limited but it’s quite likely a reliable … Malware striking Mac computers is making the headlines again, this time exploiting a vulnerability in Java that has left Apple users dangerously exposed to attack. The new Mac malware exploits a Java vulnerability (known as CVE-2012-0507), that Apple users are still not patched against. Apple users won’t feel any consolation at all in the knowledge that their … I was recently having a conversation online in a forum about online reputation and about refuting false claims posted on customer complaint sites. In this particular conversation I was having, the person was falsely accused of bad business practices. In the States, if you experience an injustice from a bad business dealing, you can complain … Google says that the latest beta version of its popular Chrome browser incorporates a new security feature to warn users that they are trying to download malicious software from a website. That’s not a revolutionary new feature, of course, and various other browsers already protect consumers in this way. Not to mention “conventional” anti-virus solutions … Anonymous, which last week threatened to pulverize the Playstation Network because of Sony’s support for the proposed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), backed off its consumer-irking belligerence and this week shifted to threatening just the executives and sites of Sony and Nintendo. Anonymous-or people purporting to be members of the group-last week uploaded a … The United States Federal Trade Commission announced that it will begin issuing refunds to 300,000 consumers that were victims of several rogue security software scams such as “Winfixer“, “Drive Cleaner” and “XP Antivirus“. The following is a list of Microsoft antimalware product detection names that are linked to the Winfixer family: Program:Win32/AdvancedCleaner Program:Win32/Antivirus2008 Program:Win32/Antivirus2009 Program:Win32/SpywareIsolatorProgram:Win32/WinFixer … An article came out yesterday from Clement Genzmer who is a security engineer at Facebook. His tagline is "searching and destroying malicious links". Those of us in the business of digital security and safety can certainly identify with that, especially the part where we aim to identify the criminals and work with law enforcement to … Fake-alert Trojans, also known as scareware, fool consumers by claiming imaginary threats, and insisting its victims purchase a product to repair the “infected” systems. They exist in Windows and Macintosh environments. In my recent report explaining this threat, I included a table showing the approximate number of scareware products with their known release dates: … |
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