December 11, 2009 - The popularity of applications on social networking websites has increased a great deal this year. This has led to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting the users of these applications. Symantec has examined phishing websites exploiting three major social (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2009 - In a new wave of phishing attacks, Symantec has observed that attackers are targeting the FTP credentials of websites. The messages appear to come from various trusted Web hosting providers. So far we have observed that users of over 100 (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst Financial organizations undergo frequent changes from the point of view of their customers, whether it’s a change to security processes, takeovers, re-branding, new products and so on. Phish emails often contain generic (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2009 - It has come to our attention recently that a website is giving out instructions on how to use a low tech social engineering trick to view private Facebook profiles. To view the instructions, a third-party application must be first downloaded (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2009 - The Koobface gang has been keeping themselves busy of late. Like Santa's little elves, they’re beavering away, creating and checking their fake Facebook and YouTube video sites and packin' it (the worm, that is) twice. The latest campaign involves posting (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Phishers are constantly targeting newer brands from diverse industries, with the sole motive of fraudulently acquiring a large amount of users’ confidential information for financial gains. Symantec has observed and followed up with some recent trends in phishing attacks targeting (continue reading...) Read more
November 20, 2009 - I had the honor recently of moderating a virtual roundtable discussion on the top Internet security trends from 2009 and what we expect to see in the security threat landscape in 2010. Funny thing about security predictions—you hope they won’t (continue reading...) Read more
November 19, 2009 - We are monitoring new malicious attacks that look similar to the fake "Microsoft Outlook reconfigure" spam campaign messages we have been observing for the last couple of months. That malicious campaign was followed by attacks on social networking sites, transforming (continue reading...) Read more