People’s curiosity usually get’s the better of them, but Facebook doesn’t enable you to know who is actually watching your profile. So whenever these messages appear, you should know that the only ones watching your profile with such apps are the cybercriminals. To activate this, you must usually make your profile entirely visible to the … More CyberThreats Daily: Who is watching your Facebook profile?
Malware authors have grown very attached to the idea of subverting legitimate business models for illegal purposes. Our Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov described how the DogmaMillions cybercrime group distributed a rootkit using a pay per install scheme. DogmaMillions group seems to have been somewhat uncomfortable with the copious attention it received last … More CyberThreats Daily: A look at the inner workings of cybercrime
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
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