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It’s the season to be scary as Halloween fast approaches us and spammers get ready to take advantage of this holiday. Internet security company Symantec, has already detected several Halloween themed spam e-mails in circulation. These spammed e-mails claim to promote e-cards, gift cards, jackpots, sweepstakes, personalized gifts, online contests, printed products and even costumes. [...]
It may appear as though the e-mails are from iTunes, but they are actually from a malicious source disguised as iTunes. The e-mail arrives with the subject title “Your receipt #” followed by a few random numbers. It is supposedly from “donotreply@itunes.com” and contains a fake iTunes receipt for a ridiculously expensive purchase. Naturally, a [...]
The mighty Zeus Trojan is a specifically designed to steal the banking details of its victims by logging their keystrokes. Once this Trojan is inside a system it is never easy to get it out, even if you gear your PC up with an antivirus program. This is why cyber-criminals are so determined to spread [...]
Were you happily browsing through Facebook when you got the following message on your wall “I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your dumb posts lol!!”? Did the post come with a link? Then you have been spammed! Scammers have targeted Facebook again but this time the link in [...]
Following an investigation that was led by officers from the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), six people, five men and one lady were arrested this week. The suspects are aged 25 to 40 and were arrested in London and County Meath, Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday. The investigation was called Operation Dynamophone and it [...]
Following the commotion that resulted from the changes to Facebook’s security settings, cyber criminals are now sending out scam e-mails purportedly from “The Facebook Team”. This new scam e-mail informs recipients that their Facebook accounts have been deactivated, but if they prefer they can reactivate their accounts by clicking on the provided link and inserting [...]
