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  During tax season most of us are probably still dreading the moment we have to quit procrastinating, buckle down, and file our income taxes. Coincidentally, it’s also a time that cybercriminals are working overtime to scam home users into giving over their financial data, and even their tax returns. The frequency of attacks only… Continue reading Top 5 Tax Season Scams

  Take a look at ransomware behind the scenes with Jesse Lopez, lead advanced malware removal engineer at Webroot.    Take a look at the best antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spy, etc. software Powered by WPeMatico

March 3rd, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu                                                  A new service launched on the Dark Web this week simplifies the process of tricking victims whose card details have been exposed into revealing their card’s PIN.   The service, which we’ll reference in this article based on… Continue reading New Dark Web Service Helps Crooks Trick You in Revealing Your Payment Card PIN

A supporter of the antivirus industry has defended the practice of intercepting encrypted traffic for malware analysis, but admits vendors need to clean up their act.                                        By Liam Tung | March 3, 2017   An advocate for the antivirus (AV) industry has warned security vendors to take heed of… Continue reading Dealing with Overwhelming Volume of Security Alerts

March 3, 2017 by Jérôme Segura                                   In a previous blog post, we showed how users were redirected to a tech support scam page via a rogue Google Chrome extension. This time we take a look at another clever ruse to trick you into calling for assistance, and ultimately getting scammed. This scheme is… Continue reading Free antivirus coupon leads to tech support scam

March 1st 2017  By Lawrence Abrams   The Crypt0L0cker ransomware, otherwise known as Torrentlocker or Teerac, was a common ransomware infection that mostly targeted Australia and European countries in 2014. Towards the middle of 2015, though, this ransomware slowly started dying off to the point that it was hardly distributed anymore.   Fast forward to… Continue reading Crypt0L0cker Ransomware is Back with Campaigns Targeting Europe

By Michael Mimoso March 2, 2017                                                 Having had more than a week to digest Cloudbleed’s causes and impact, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince assessed the damage yesterday in a lengthy post-mortem as relatively low.   Prince said there is no evidence the vulnerability, which leaked… Continue reading Cloudbleed Triggered 1.2M Times, Damage Kept to Minimum

3rd March 2017  By Dark Reading Staff   Federal indictments charged 19 people for participating in international fraud and money laundering operations including the use of BEC schemes, which led to $13M in losses.   Nineteen people were charged today for participating in international fraud and money-laundering schemes, which led to the loss of $13M… Continue reading DoJ Indicts 19 People in Global Fraud, Money-Laundering Schemes

March 2, 2017 by Christopher Boyd                                                In Australia, myGov is a “simple and secure way to access government services online”.   Secure access to a range of government services using one username and password A single inbox for your messages from Centrelink, Medicare, Child Support… Continue reading Australians beware: myGov phishing on the prowl

Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records.                                Sean Gallagher – 3/2/2017   Researchers at Cisco’s Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack delivered by a malicious Microsoft Word document that goes to great lengths to conceal its operations. Based entirely… Continue reading Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders