Cybercriminals are cashing in on the financial crisis, spamming Irish mailboxes with fake offers of affordable loans. In difficult times people resort to desperate measures to try to keep their finances afloat. When it becomes impossible to get a regular loan, some people turn to loan sharks and their extortionist interest rates, while others look … More Fake loan offers out to scam the desperate
ESET Ireland survey: Up to 73% of children are left entirely unsupervised online. The recent Co. Donegal and Co. Leitrim tragedies, where two teenage girls committed suicide because of online bullying and abuse, reminded us in a most dreadful way that the web isn’t just a nice place of Google searches, YouTube videos and friendly … More Do more children have to die before parents take their online lives seriously?
Our colleague David Harley has put together a three-part blog on phishing: http://blog.eset.com/2012/10/31/online-shopping-and-a-phishing-pheeding-phrenzy is part 1. The links to the other two parts, in case anyone needs them are here, but each includes links to each of the other two: http://blog.eset.com/2012/10/31/online-shopping-and-a-phishing-pheeding-phrenzy-2 http://blog.eset.com/2012/10/31/online-shopping-and-a-phishing-pheeding-phrenzy-3
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Every major disaster in the recent years like the Indian ocean tsunamis, hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and the the Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster has attracted the attention of the lowest form of cybercriminals, the so called “disaster scammers” – people who try to make a profit on either those already victims of the … More Warnings against »disaster scammers« in the wake of hurricane Sandy
