Posts Tagged ‘five months’

Comcast users phished by Constant Guard spam lure

May

2012

Naked Security reader Simcha Jessel sent us a tip about a new phishing scam targeting customers of Comcast XFINITY cable internet service. Jessel became aware of the scam after the scammers used his Gmail address to send the scam to their intended victims. It is unclear whether his Gmail was hacked or just forged in […]

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FakeAV online scanner scam still in the wild – Let’s have a look at the possible evolution of some famous FakeAV scanner scams

Dec

2011

The FakeAV business faced a decrease in the last few months. Due to federal law enforcement activities against the FakeAV industry and some major search engine optimizations to prevent blackhat seo poisoning, less infections of FakeAV programs were reported in the last five months. Despite those measures, FakeAV is still a serious threat to everyone […]

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How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

Aug

2011

RSA was hacked in March. This was one of the biggest hacks in history. The current theory is that a nation-state wanted to break in to Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman to steal military secrets. They couldn’t do it, since these companies were using RSA SecurID tokens for network authentication. So, the hackers broke into RSA with […]

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