Tag: PHISHING

Even though Facebook is loaded with spam and scams, the service has maintained a reputation as being the trustworthy social network, largely thanks to its requirement that users post their real names. The public's trust makes hacked Facebook profiles a valuable commodity for those who make their livings in the Internet black market. Researchers at VeriSign are tracking one hacker's efforts to ...

As if phishing scams and identity thefts didn't already make the Internet unappetizing, hackers are apparently getting still more industrious in ways that leave us feeling queasy. According to The New Scientist, we now have to worry about "a burgeoning cyber-crime industry, one which lets people with next to no programming skills steal a fortune in cash or get hold of sensitive government ...

Let's role play a bit. You're a hacker and a spreader of malware. Your specialty is hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to spread spam and links to malicious sites. You've just managed to take over the Twitter page for United Airlines. In the meantime, we'll play the role of the hapless United Airlines follower who is constantly hoping to see a deal for cheap flights pop up. So, what ...

Not even a month ago, Twitter took radical steps after a phishing attack hit the site -- locking down many accounts and requiring users to reset their passwords. Now, another pesky attack is plaguing users. According to Graham Cluley's Sophos blog, Wednesday saw a flood of tweets containing a malicious link and reading, "This you????" Clicking the link -- surprise, surprise -- sends you to a ...

A phishing attack that began striking U.S. Twitter profiles this weekend is still going strong and isn't showing any signs of letting up. As VentureBeat reports, the scam operates through a direct message reading, "Lol. this you?" Once users click on it, they're sent to a fake Twitter login page, where they could be tricked into revealing their login and password. The exact message reads as ...

This morning, many Twitter users found themselves effectively locked out of their accounts. Following a phishing attack, Twitter took the unprecedented measure of locking down several users' accounts and requiring them to reset their passwords. The owners of the accounts were sent messages that read, "Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Macmillan publishing house is one of the largest publishing companies in the world. Because of an e-book price dispute, though, Amazon actually removed Macmillan's vast collection of titles from its Web site. The online retailer has apparently relented, though, and will allow Macmillan to charge its own set prices for ...

DIY is all the rage these days. People are building musical instruments, beer keg-monitoring robots, baby rocking machines, and iPhone-controlled cars, and gaining the satisfaction of making something with their own hands while saving a little cash. Bad news for the Web browsing public however, the DIY fad has spread to cybercrime and phishing scams. Marc Rossi, R&D manager at Symantec, ...

It seems like every day that a new phishing scam hits Twitter, and Wednesday was no different. According to CNET News, Twitter warned its users to be on the lookout for a phishing scam that attacks via direct messages. "[If] you've received a strange (direct message), and it takes you to a Twitter log-in page, don't do it!," Twitter warned in a post. Of course, this isn't the first scam that ...

Share The increasing flood of e-mail hitting your inbox can lower the guard of even the most cautious person. In the rush to keep up with important notes, it's easier than ever to fall prey to the scam artists and identity thieves who lurk online. E-mail scams and phishing attempts evolve constantly, hoping to take advantage of the latest trends and current events. Although the e-mails ...

The pool of phishing scams on Twitter is seemingly bottomless. Every time we turn around, there is a new one popping up, or an old one reemerging, or some other unfortunate development that sends us rushing to the presses only to give users the same advice over and over again: Don't click on that link. The most recent scam comes in the form of a direct message declaring "you're on this vid!" ...

The FBI has busted up a major spam and bank fraud ring that spanned from coast to coast, and even had ties to Egypt. Fifty-three suspects in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Charlotte, North Carolina have been indicted, with dozens of them already in police custody. An additional 47 Egyptian suspects have been named, and authorities there are working to apprehend them now. The scam centered around ...

Don't feel bad if you've recently fallen for an e-mail scam. They're not always easy to identify. Just ask FBI Director Robert Mueller. Mueller received an e-mail from his bank asking him to verify some account information. After entering said information, Mueller says he realized that the e-mail was part of a phishing scam. According to CNET News, he immediately changed his passwords and breathed ...

Yesterday, reports emerged that 10,000 Hotmail account addresses and passwords had been posted to the site PasteBin.com. Today, BBC News revealed that it has discovered another incriminating list containing log-in information for 20,000 additional e-mail addresses. The new batch, though, not only includes information from compromised Hotmail accounts, but also from Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and ...

Grifters love Facebook, and there seems to be no limit to the ingenuity and creativity of the shadowy con-artists. According to the Counter Measures blog, a new scam has emerged, which may be connected to previous schemes, incorporating hacked accounts, new phishing techniques, and status updates that falsely appear to be posted via SMS. The scam began with phony spam status updates, actually ...