November 1, 2011 - London's Metropolitan Police Service has announced the conviction and sentencing of two Ukrainian cybercrooks. The pair raided innocent victims' bank accounts of at least $4.5 million in just six months. Read more
November 1, 2011 - A large increase in bank phishing emails was spotted today in SophosLabs. Users are being tricked into opening HTML attachments to provide criminals with credit cards and personal information. Read more
October 31, 2011 - Contributor: Anand Muralidharan Recently, the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi triggered a malware attack which Symantec previously blogged about. We have observed spammers' continued delight with this news event through the sending of malicious attack and 419 spam messages. In (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2011 - I just looked in my junk box to find an “Amazing” sale on pirated software, but I have to act fast, as it’s only good until Halloween. My colleague Stephen Cobb points out the rate of effectiveness of scams would (continue reading...) Read more
October 24, 2011 - Do you often make mistakes when typing? Is the Backspace key your friend? Well, you are not alone! Most of us make typing errors once in a while, but what if those errors could cause data leakage? Typosquatting exploits common typing (continue reading...) Read more
October 24, 2011 - A Twitter phishing attack arrives in the form of a Direct Message (DM) from one of your Twitter pals, claiming that they have searched for you on Google and found some "really funny stuff" about you. Be careful what you click (continue reading...) Read more
October 23, 2011 - Has a Twitter friend found a funny picture of you? Or maybe they've seen a "real bad blog" about you? If so, don't click on the link - chances are it's an attempt to phish your Twitter password. (continue reading...) Read more
October 20, 2011 - Here's an example of search poisoning somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb using the death of Gaddafi as a hook, noted by our colleague Raphael Labaca Castro, of ESET Latin America. The original blog is in (continue reading...) Read more
October 19, 2011 - Fake antivirus sites are a very common way to trick people into installing malware on their computers. Another technique is to repackage popular software with adware or malware, and offer them for download. AVG is a popular (continue reading...) Read more
October 14, 2011 - You may not realise it, but your Twitter account is worth money. Cybercriminals are keen to compromise your Twitter account, so they can spam out messages (either as public tweets, or less obvious direct messages to your online friends) in the (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Contributor: Christopher Mendes When stalwarts pass away the world mourns their loss, tributes flow and emotions run high. Whenever we lose a legendary figure, their death brings shock or grief and people are hungry for any and every available piece of (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Well, yes, that title is quoting a song by John D. Loudermilk, written with some (possibly accidental) prescience way back in 1962. Given the aggravation that 21st century phishing causes Google users, perhaps it's time for a new song dedicated to that (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Phishing emails pretending to be from UPS.com are making the rounds in an attempt to steal your credentials for the My UPS website. Find out what to look for and stay safe online. (continue reading...) Read more
October 5, 2011 - Brazil is a cybercrime hotspot - with hundreds of millions of dollars stolen every year. What is stopping the authorities from catching those responsible, and should anti-virus companies do more to fight the bad guys rather than just the bad files? (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - Next week, I'll be talking at the Identity and Hi-Tech Crime Symposium 2011 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. There's still time for last-minute registrations at the event, so if you're in the region, why not join me there? (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - The holiday season is about to commence and spammers have resurfaced with new offers well in advance. We have already observed spam for Christmas and New Year in the month of September, not to mention spam for Halloween, which is (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - In 1990, when only the government and a number of universities were using the Internet, there were 357 unique pieces of malware. The need for security began with desktop computing when the only means of compromising data was by inserting (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2011 - Thanks to Shravan Shashikant and the Norton Confidential Online team for providing the data, and to Christopher Mendes for compiling it. Does phish taste better than spam? Yes, perhaps it does. Allow me to explain. The recent past has been one of (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2011 - Fake software stores often claim to offer huge discounts, not unlike the well-known site Groupon. So it should not be a surprise that some of these fake stores look exactly like Groupon in an effort to (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - QR codes are a highly convenient way to link a physical object to a URL. Point your phone's camera at the 2D barcode and you're instantly taken to a website. That's something (continue reading...) Read more