February 27, 2012 - Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber in a sex video? Your Facebook friends may be sharing the link with you - but take a reality check, it's another survey scam. Read more
February 25, 2012 - This week, news has emerged in Canada of a police investigation into the use of robocalling (automated phone dialling, a.k.a. voice spam) in an apparent attempt to disrupt an election result. Read more
February 24, 2012 - Pastebin is having a bit of a tough time at the moment, with persistent DDoS attacks doing their level best to keep the site offline. Something else it probably doesn’t need right now is a rise in automated (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2012 - A malware attack cloaks its true intentions by posing as a emailed scan from a printer. Would your users click on the attachment without thinking twice? Read more
February 22, 2012 - Internet users are receiving emails claiming to contain a changelog - but the files attached are really designed to infect computers. Read more
February 21, 2012 - Today we released our Fourth Quarter 2011 Threat Report, revealing that malware surpassed the our estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release of new malware slowed a bit in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase (continue reading...) Read more
February 21, 2012 - Recently I came across an airline booking confirmation phishing email. Whilst this is not necessarily a new phishing technique, the email and associated phishing website are quite interesting and at first glance could appear to be legitimate. In the email, (continue reading...) Read more
February 21, 2012 - Thanks to Poonam Keluskar for their assistance with this research. Maslenitsa (Маслница) is a religious holiday celebrated in Russia and Ukraine during the last week before Lent, i.e. the seventh week before Pascha (Easter). This festival is also known as Pancake (continue reading...) Read more
February 20, 2012 - Our Klingon anti-virus product has been told it could receive a massive inheritance. Hmm.. does anyone smell anything a bit Ferengi about this? Read more
February 20, 2012 - Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a (continue reading...) Read more
February 20, 2012 - Scammers are up to their old tricks on Facebook, tricking users into visiting revenue-generating survey scam websites by appearing to offer sex videos. Read more
February 17, 2012 - If these spammers want to get a higher return on their email campaign they might want to try targeting just South African internet users in future. Read more
February 17, 2012 - Thanks to Anand Muralidharan for their assistance with this research. The world is mourning the loss of another legendary pop singer also known as the queen of pop - Whitney Houston. Spammers are paying homage to the icon with a wicked (continue reading...) Read more
February 16, 2012 - There seems to be a playbook of standard hacker tactics after a celebrity death or an event of worldwide interest like earthquakes or tsunamis. Hours after the announcement of (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2012 - The death of pop superstar Whitney Houston made headlines around the world this weekend, and it didn't take long for fraudsters and cybercriminals to cash in on the singer's death. For instance, messages have been seen shared on Facebook claiming to (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2012 - Want to test an iPhone 5? Sorry - but it's an SMS text spam campaign sent to mobile phone users. Read more
February 15, 2012 - As part of our regular VIPREcast webinar series, this month I’ll be talking about Botnets, giving some examples of Botnet (continue reading...) Read more
February 13, 2012 - Looking forward to Valentine's Day? Need a last minute present? Don't let spammers take advantage of you. Read more
February 13, 2012 - The UK branch of the ticketing firm Ticketmaster has warned its online customers that they might have received a series of unauthorised emails after its TicketWeb subsidiary's mailing list system was compromised. (continue reading...) Read more
February 12, 2012 - With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, what better way to say “I love you” than, uh, losing your login details and spamming $500 Victoria’s Secret giftcards to all your Tumblr followers. (continue reading...) Read more