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• Get Rich Quick! Just In Time for the Holidays

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 490
  National unemployment rates over 10% and the pressures of the holiday shopping season make for a dangerous cocktail that the cyber criminals can take advantage of.  Fears of not being able to pay the monthly mortgage, car payments, backed up bills, and providing for your children for the holidays have put many people ...
  5 hours ago

• No Ifs or Bots: if only…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 567
  I came across a nice article today by Dennis Fisher on “ The Root of the Botnet Epidemic ”. Its the start of what looks like an interesting series on "the roots, growth and effects of the botnet epidemic" and the first aricle takes a historical overview of the situation around the turn of the century, looking at ...
  1 day ago

• New Spam Campaign Targets Social Security Numbers

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 509
  The University of Alabama’s Spam Data Mine has discovered a new malicious spam campaign that is designed to steal social security numbers as well. The messages are made to look like an alert from the Social Security Administration and have subject lines such as “Review your annual Social Security statement” and ...
  1 day ago

• My Spam analysis for the week of Nov 23 - 29, 2009

  
  Wiz's Computer and Website Security Blog — Authority: 120
  This is the latest entry in my weekly series about classifications of spam, according to my custom filter rules used by MailWasher Pro . The categories are shown on the "Statistics" page > "Junk Mail," as a pie chart, based on my custom filters and blacklist. The amount of email flagged as spam is shown on the ...
  2 days ago

• New Spam Promises Macbook, Delivers Malware

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 509
  A new wave of malicious spam makes promises of a free MacBook Air but delivers malware instead. The spam messages were only recently detected and arrived with the subject line “Congratulations!” The body of the message reads “Congratulations! You have won todays Macbook Air. Please open attached file and see ...
  4 days ago

• Another Reason Not to Jailbreak Your iPhone

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 429
  According to recent media reports , iPhones that have been illegally altered (know as Jailbreaking) are being targeted by malware. The malware then links the jailbroken iPhone into a mobile botnet, believed to be the first of its kind. The worm, uncovered by security firm Intego, scans local networks for jailbroken ...
  1 week ago

• Godfather of spam jailed for four years

  
  Graham Cluley's blog — Authority: 711
  Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam", has been sentenced to four years in jail for his role in a stock fraud scheme that earned him $2.7 million during the summer of 2005. 64-year-old Ralsky, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for a share price manipulation scam that ran ...
  1 week ago

• New iPhone worm steals online banking codes, builds botnet

  
  Soft-Go.Com Blog — Authority: 427
  Hackers have borrowed a tactic from the world’s first iPhone worm to build a botnet that steals data, including online banking credentials, from jailbroken Apple smartphones.A new worm, dubbed “Duh” by U.K.-based security firm Sophos, is related to the “ikee” worm released earlier this month only in its ...
  1 week ago

• Will Belgium Build a new Botnet?

  
  /dev/random — Authority: 112
  (Credits: electricpig.co.uk) The title is a bit catchy but you will quickly understand why. Today started a new commercial offer promoted by the Belgian authorities: Start2surf@home . To help to reduce the technology gap between the Belgian citizens, a package is now available at a very attractive price: a ...
  1 week ago

• Dutch iPhone Hacker Strikes Again: How to Secure Your iPhone in Simple Steps!

  
  iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone — Authority: 512
  Another worm that attacks the iPhone has been discovered by F-Secure, the security company who found the first. Its actions? From BBC News : It is specifically targeting people in the Netherlands who are usingtheir iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING. It redirects the banks customers to a ...
  1 week ago

• New Malicious iPhone Worm Picking Up Steam

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 547
  Security companies identified another variant of a hack of jailbroken iPhones this past weekend. The first reports came in from F-Secure, which said that this variant was an actual worm with a C&C; (Command and Control) server which appears to be in Lithuania, according to analysts. Later reports say the server ...
  1 week ago

• iPhone Worm Steals Data

  
  DisplayBlog — Authority: 440
  Copyright © 2009 Jin . Visit the original article at http://www.displayblog.com/2009/11/23/iphone-worm-steals-data/ . People with jailbroken iPhones who have not changed the default root password be careful. There is a new worm that hijacks your iPhone and tries to steal user information from a particular Dutch ...
  1 week ago

• First Malicious Worm Hits the iPhone

  
  ModCool — Authority: 159
  It didnt take long for hackers to take advantage of a potentially dangerous exploit affecting jailbroken iPhones. The vulnerability first gained notoriety earlier this month when a hacker from the Netherlands took control of modified iPhones and sent the owners an SMS requesting a fee for instructions on how to ...
  1 week ago

• Latest jailbroken iPhone worm tries filching bank passwords

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 740
  The second malicious worm to attack jailbroken iPhones has been spotted in the wild, and is the first to directly target users bank accounts. Called iBotnet.A by security research firm Intego, the worm tries to steal account logins from customers of popular online banking service ING Direct. Though it only affects ...
  1 week ago

• IBot revisited (briefly)

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 567
  I dont want to flog (or blog) this iPhone bot thing to death: after all, the number of potential victims should be shrinking all the time. However, having updated my previous blog ( http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/11/22/ibot-mark-2-go-straight-to-jail-do-not-pass-go)  on the topic a couple of times, ...
  1 week ago

• Trojan Email attacks Vodafone and Verizon customers

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 159
  Customers of Vodafone and Verizon shall get yourself aware of a spam email which carries a Trojan and will be arriving at your inbox anytime. The email will come in the form telling you that your account has exceeded the limit. This email looks like it’s coming from Verizon or Vodafone with the subject “Your ...
  1 week ago

• My Spam analysis for the week of Nov 16 - 22, 2009

  
  Wiz's Computer and Website Security Blog — Authority: 120
  This is the latest entry in my weekly series about classifications of spam, according to my custom filter rules used by MailWasher Pro . The categories are shown on the "Statistics" page > "Junk Mail," as a pie chart, based on my custom filters and blacklist. The amount of email flagged as spam is shown on the ...
  1 week ago

• iBot Mark 2: Go Straight To Jail Do Not Pass Go

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 567
  Back in April, I blogged about an article in that months Virus Bulletin by  Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli about the first serious attempt to creat a Mac botnet. The issue containin that article, by the way, is now available on the Virus Bulletin web site at   ...
  1 week ago

• iPhone Virus Turns Into a Mobile Botnet

  
  Redmond Pie — Authority: 653
  From last one month or so, jailbroken iPhone community has remained under constant threats from various types of worm attacks. First time that we warned you about was when a Dutch hacker tried to access jailbroken iPhones through SSH in his native country Netherlands. He offered remedy for 5 Euros. Another ...
  1 week ago

• Zbot Trojan Ring Busted

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 509
  Authorities in the UK have arrested two people suspected of distributing the Zeus Trojan. The arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit and are the first ever in connection with the Trojan, which has infected hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. Detective Inspector Colin ...
  1 week ago

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