Phishers appear to have concentrated their fire on a relatively new target: Apple IDs. In recent days, we've seen a spike in phishing sites that try to steal Apple IDs.
Upon looking at the URLS, we noted that there was a consistent pattern to the URLs of these phishing sites. They are under a folder named ~flight. Interestingly, trying to access the folder itself will load the following page:
Technically, the sites were only compromised, but not hacked (as the original content ...
No less than a day or so after we discovered the spam campaign taking advantage of the Boston Marathon bombing, we came upon yet another spam campaign, very similar to the previous one except this time it uses the Texas fertilizer plant explosion as a lure. The fertilizer plant explosion occurred a mere few days after the tragedy in Boston, with 35 suspected dead and more than 160 people injured.
What’s disturbing about the discovery of this particular campaign is that ...
Within a short time period of less than 24 hours, cybercriminals have already taken advantage of Monday's explosion at the Boston Marathon as a newsworthy item. My colleague Mary Ermitano-Aquino noted a spam outbreak of more than 9,000 Blackhole Exploit Kit (clarification below) spammed messages, all related to the said tragedy that killed at least three people and injured many more. Some of the spammed messages used the subjects "2 Explosions at Boston Marathon," "Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathon," "Boston Explosion ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened up the filing season on January 30, 2013 to help taxpayers prepare for the looming April 15 tax deadline. April 15 or colloquially known as Tax Day is when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Typical of cybercriminals, they have also prepared their own tax-related scams for taxpayers with scams that aren't a far cry from the usual attempts.
Tax-themed attacks usually arrive in the form of spammed messages claiming to be from the IRS or other government-related ...
With the amount of media coverage surrounding this year’s papal conclave and inauguration, it’s hardly a surprise that cybercriminals have taken advantage of this event to victimize users. We recently spotted spam that use newly-elected Pope Francis as the subject.
These email messages use the new pope and controversies surrounding the Catholic Church to pique the recipients’ curiosity. To convince users of the legitimacy of the emails, these cite CNN as the alleged source. A screenshot of an email can be ...
