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Scammers Take Advantage of Buzz Around Toy Story 3
Published on 21 Jul, 2010 at 10:17 in Cloud | Viewed 25 times | No Comments
Scammers are notorious for jumping quickly on the latest trends, including the World Cup and iPad launches. They have now turned to using the buzz surrounding Toy Story 3 to lure in unsuspecting victims to bombard them with pop-up software scams and fake survey websites.
The scams, purporting to show clips of Buzz and Woody talking, send users to malware-infected and useless sites. Some even claim to offer games related…
Scareware among Fastest-Growing Online Scams, Says FBI
Pop-ups telling you your computer has been infected with a virus and then insisting on buying a certain anti-virus solution are not only incredibly annoying, but they can also masquerade as carriers of malware.
Called scareware because they scare consumers into buying bogus anti-virus programs, this type of scam has become one of the fastest-growing types of online frauds, according to the FBI. Instead of removing the supposed virus, the…
Indonesian Government Hacked over World Cup
Published on 14 Jun, 2010 at 9:25 in Cloud | Viewed 61 times | No Comments
Spammers and other cyber miscreants are already taking advantage of the World Cup, spreading malware and spam featuring World Cup related ads and emails. However, a security researcher at Kaspersky Labs has discovered a new attack, that appears to not focus on collecting money.
“The attack was on the Indonesian government Web server,” Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky Labs, writes. “The gang behind the attack put a defacement on…
World Cup Good for Spammers
The World Cup begins today and spammers have already joined the party, releasing spam messages that target individuals searching for World Cup information. Presently, the amount of World Cup-related spam is relatively small compared to total spam amounts but it has increased, according to F-Secure.
“It’s still just a small percentage of spam overall (under 2%) but when comparing the first three days from the last six months,…
