Crimes perpetrated over the Internet, typically having to do with online fraud. See cybercrook and cyberextortion.
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- Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?
- With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe's Flash updater
- Earlier this week, the botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe's Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page. The malware campaign is relying on compromised legitimate web sites,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google
- Originally exposed as a botnet redirecting and monetizing hijacked traffic to over 200,000 parked domains primarily located in the Bahamas, researchers from ClickForensics have recently found evidence on active DNS hijacking of Google properties allowing cybercriminals to steal revenue from Google by pulling search results and displaying them on a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- SpyShelter 2.0 (Windows)
- The Internet is now a vital part of our personal and business lives. With increasing use of online systems, cybercrime also has grown exponentially. Information-stealing software are produced regularly and are used by thieves to steal personal and business information. One of the most effective ways of stealing information is...
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples
- According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft's Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks
- Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom†that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Hijacking Windows System Restore for cybercrime profits
- welp.... they are finally getting a taste of their own crap.I wonder what they are doing. We use steadystate on all of our machines. Reboot the machine and everything is restored.Maybe they should move from a PC based environment to a terminal server like system. Each reboot...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Hijacking Windows System Restore for cybercrime profits
- Hackers in China are using a combination of sophisticated techniques to penetrate the hard disk recovery card on computers in Internet cafes to steal billions of dollars worth of online gaming credentials. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
- Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic
- Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Taking into consideration the fact that 99% of ongoing scareware campaigns rely on "visual social engineering", this gallery presents some of the most popular templates used by cybercrime gangs in an attempt to trick the end user into installing the fake security software. by Dancho Danchev
- Image galleries 2009-09-13
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- Anticipating the logical peak of 9/11 related keywords on the 8th anniversary of the attacks, cybercriminals have hijacked the trending topic by occupying thousands of related keywords for the purpose of serving fake security software. None of the sites are currently marked as harmful by the SafeBrowsing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Researchers from MX Logic -- now part of McAfee -- have intercepted a new malware campaign spammed by the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet, that's using an 'IRS unreported income' notices in an attempt to trick the recipients into downloading a tax-statement.exe executable. The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet remains among the most...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Give me one good reason not to just move them all to Linux
- RE: Give me one good reason not to just move them all to LinuxAs a roaming tech helper and trainer, I completely concur. Over the past few years, I have moved quite a few of my clients to Mac or Linux and they couldn't be happier. And lately, the infestation...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Hacker Gonzalez to plead guilty in TJX hack; A hollow victory?
- Albert Gonzalez, a hacker charged with stealing as many as 130 million credit and debit card numbers, will plead guilty to 19 counts of charges related to the TJX breach and surrender assets. Any cybercrime satisfaction, however, will be short-lived. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- The most dangerous celebrities to search for in 2009
- Searching for which celebrity has the highest probability of tricking you into visiting a malware-friendly web site? Last year it was Brad Pitt, but according to this year's McAfee report "Riskiest Celebrities to Search on the Web", it's Jessica Biel related searches that have "one in five...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime
- Just goes to show no one's doing their homeworkWe keep pushing computerized systems out further and further into important aspects of our lives, and yet the security portion isn't baked in and is really an afterthought. Put a national security slant on all of this, and the possibilities are...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
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