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Trojan targets Japanese bank customers through spam

14

Sep

2011

Recent malware trends clearly show that financial gain is one of the top reasons to be on the dark side of the Internet. Countless threats targeting banking information come and go each day. Stealing banking information is now easier than ever with the availability of toolkits such as Spyeye and Zbot that allow malware authors […]

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Bad guys want your Twitter passwords – don’t be phished via a DM attack!

06

Sep

2011

We continue to see Twitter users being targeted by criminal campaigns designed to phish passwords for the site. The problem is that often they are disguised as direct messages (DMs in Twitter parlance) from your online friends. The latest attack comes in the form of a DM from one of your Twitter acquaintances: when did […]

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Fake Offers with Fake Trust Seals

06

Sep

2011

Thanks to the co-author of this blog, Wahengbam RobinSingh. Phishers are constantly looking for new ideas in their efforts of tricking end users. In August, Symantec observed a phishing site that utilized a number of new tricks. The phishing site masqueraded as a well known software company and claimed to offer associated software products at […]

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