BlackHat Japanning David Harley, ESET Senior Research Fellow UrbanSchrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland As Urban Schrott wrote: “…with every major natural disaster in the recent past, be it Indian ocean tsunamis, hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the recent Christchurch earthquake, several waves of online fraud have appeared. The succession of earthquakes and … More Monthly Threat Report: March 2011
With the breach of Epsilon, we are going to see a huge influx of phishing attacks before it settles back down to the normal level of tons of phishing attacks. So you aren’t a computer expert, how do you protect yourself? Don’t worry about spotting the phish, it is more important that you do not … More CyberThreats Daily: How to Avoid a Phishing Attack
A new scam is spreading via Facebook Chat messages at 90,000 clicks an hour. An estimated 600,000 people have already clicked the link, which falsely promises to show them a funny Photoshopped image of themselves. The reason this is spreading so quickly is because the Rogue application is asking for access to Facebook Chat. Once … More CyberThreats Daily: New ‘Photoshopped image’ Facebook scam spreading fast
We regularly warn our readers about the dangers of “support scams”, where calls from supposed tech support companies offer remotely fixing computers as well as installing some actual or bogus antivirus product for a fee. Since we’re getting increased reports about such activities in Ireland as well, it would be useful to read ESET researcher … More CyberThreats Daily: Support scams continue, Ireland no exception
If you have a Samsung computer check it out. If there is a directory called c:\windows\SL. This is a directory used to house a commercial keystroke logger that it appears Samsung is using to steal your passwords, screen shots, and other data. Network World has the full story. But our advice would be, if you … More CyberThreats Daily: Got a Samsung? You Got Owned
