Security Alerts

Browse the latest malware outbreak and security alerts, from password leaks to global ransomware attacks.

Dec 16, 2013

Avoiding Holiday Identity Theft This Season

Shopping online for all of your holiday gifting is an act of pure convenience – for both shoppers and identity thieves. Combined with powerful antivirus software, your best defense is common sense and a bit of discretion. There are now millions of places to shop online, which means millions of places to enter your sensitive […]

Apr 8, 2013

3 min read

Phone fraud: Scammer uses Microsoft’s name to install malware

Phone fraud has been around for a long time. Nowadays, however, this tactic is also being used to infect your PC with malware. Unknown callers pretend to be employees of an established company and ask for remote access to solve a PC problem. The fraudsters preferably pose as technical support agents for Microsoft, but also […]

Nov 18, 2011

5 min read

Phishing emails defraud thousands of users every day

What does a phishing email look like? How can you distinguish it from a legitimate one? Here we discuss current examples of phishing emails and ways to avoid becoming a victim of fraud.

Mar 28, 2011

1 min read

Scam email lead to Keylogger. Beware!

Among a lot of various scam emails about “post express“, we found one email that is unfamiliar, and pretty sure this is a different malware, with subject “Available for pickup“, and included an executable attachment file, “Sent.exe“. Dear Sir I have just returned and received your message — it is 2:25 am in Vancouver. I […]

Feb 19, 2011

3 min read

“Undelivered package” scam emails still continue

Fake delivery notification scam emails have been around for years. As with all email scams, our advice is if you got an email that claims to come from a delivery company, think before you act. Because it could be a scam email that contains viruses, ransomware or phishing scam sites. Seems like they have started to be on rise […]

Jan 31, 2011

2 min read

This malware will block your Facebook. Beware!

Malware continues to attack Facebook users. This time, the malware is able to spread through Facebook chat messages by sending a message along with a malicious links to the user’s friends. The message looks like this: hahahh Foto :D hxxp://apps.facebook.com/glombotke/photo.php?=1012323960 The link will lead to the malicious Facebook application page. With the social engineering techniques, […]

Jul 14, 2010

4 min read

Backgrounds of the current Twitter Spam mails increase

Most Internet users know of Twitter. It is a free service that allows the creation and following of short text messages, like a kind of “World Wide Web TXT”. A lot of private persons, but even huge companies use Twitter. Yes, Twitter is well known and a shining light of the Internet and its possibilities. […]

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