February 3, 2012 - Following the Dreamhost hack, that was revealed this week, many websites hosted by the company have been hijacked to redirect users to a Russian scam page. I've identified hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - Watch out for stock scams, as Facebook prepares to IPO. If you believe that Facebook has a strong future ahead of it, and do decide to invest in the company, please do so wisely and go through the appropriate (continue reading...) Read more
January 31, 2012 - I saw a thread over on Reddit regarding the “Funniest scam I’ve ever seen”. Unfortunately the main linked screenshot of the scam site is now offline, but someone provided the URL of the website in the comments so I (continue reading...) Read more
January 31, 2012 - Once again, Facebook users are being hit by a barrage of spam - this time claiming to promote a diet. Read more
January 30, 2012 - The personal income tax year in Australia ends on 30 June. Many refunds will already have been processed and paid out. That hasn't stopped the scammers. They've added a few weasel-words about "delays", as a sort of general-purpose excuse. (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2012 - A scam spreads on Tumblr, claiming that every user will be given a free iPhone 5. Never mind the fact that the iPhone 5 has not been announced yet, let alone released. Read more
January 27, 2012 - Matthew, one of our malware researchers analyzed a Web threat that recently came to our attention thanks to a report from one of our VIPRE clients. Vkernel(dot)org (not to be mistaken with vkernel.com) is found to be a scam launchpad (continue reading...) Read more
January 25, 2012 - Messages have been spread on Facebook claiming to link to a video news report of the death of awesome martial arts film star Chuck Norris. Read more
January 24, 2012 - When a direct message pops up on Twitter stating that other people are saying bad things about you, please think twice before clicking on any links in that message. Why? Because the links are likely to take you to malicious (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - There have been warnings over the last few days regarding a Halo 4 Beta invite scam. Information was pretty thin on the ground, however, so I decided to take a look – especially as there were reports of (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - You may well have read about the BBB phish / exploit emails doing the rounds last week. It’s worth noting that these are still in circulation – we’ve seen five of these in the last two days linking to (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - Some searches yield more dangerous results than others, for example, looking to buy software online has a 90% risk of bring you to a fake store and free software might not be free of adware/spyware. Looking (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2012 - SophosLabs is warning users not to read too much into docs.google.com URLs. Two scam campaigns this weekend used Google Docs to attack two very different targets. One had big-four Aussie bank ANZ in its sights; the other was aimed at a (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2012 - Have your Facebook friends invited you to switch your boring blue Facebook profile to an attractive shade of red, black or shocking pink? Read more
January 10, 2012 - Matthew, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, came upon a MediaFire link on a YouTube account that purports to direct users to a site where a crack code for the video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - First it was the Cheesecake Factory; now, it’s Timeline. Facebook, like many other social networking companies, is experiencing some user dissatisfaction, and scammers are taking advantage of anti-Timeline sentiment. According to Insidefacebook, scammers are creating pages (continue reading...) Read more
January 3, 2012 - Are Walmart and Ikea *really* giving away gift cards via Twitter? And, if so, would they want you to vote for your favourite character from a low-brow reality TV show? Read more
December 21, 2011 - One of the recurring web spam themes I saw in 2011, was the "Work from home and make $X,000/month" scam. In some variations of the well-known and well-used scam, websites are set up to look like (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild. The scam arrives as an email that directs users to the URL, data-server(dot)host(dot)org/email/protect/chase/. (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Supermarket chain Tesco has warned its customers about a scam that has spread on Facebook, claiming that attending an event on the social network can will earn them a free £250 gift voucher. (continue reading...) Read more