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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 239 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: social networking accounts prized cybercrooks comments Discuss  
Cyber criminals increasingly are moving away from trying to break into computers directly, choosing instead to target Internet users where they spend much of their time online -- at social networking Web sites, new data suggests. In an analysis of cyber crime activity in the 2nd half of 2007, security vendor Symantec Corp. found that two social networking sites together were the target of 91 percent of U.S.-based phishing Web sites. Social networking sites also...Please click on the title to continue readi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 183 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: cybercrooks plant phishing scam crime reduction website comments Discuss  
Home Office pwnedPhishing fraudsters hacked a Home Office crime reduction website to host an Italian phishing website on Monday.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 127 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: cybercrooks faster sneakier comments Discuss  
Browser plug-ins flaws help hackers build botnetsCybercrooks are becoming faster at utilising newly-discovered browser exploits. More than nine in ten of all browser-related exploits occurred within 24 hours of an official vulnerability disclosure, according to a survey by IBM's X-Force security division.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 126 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn cybercrooks faster sneakier comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:41 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/x_force_threat_report/By John LeydenThe Register29th July 2008Cybercrooks are becoming faster at utilising newly-discovered browser exploits. More than nine in ten of all browser-related exploits occurred within 24 hours of an official vulnerability disclosure, according to a survey by IBM's X-Force security division.The cyber-threat survey, which looked closely at information secu read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 114 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: russian cybercrooks turn georgia comments Discuss  
Infamous rent-a-bot krew gets politicalConflict between Georgia and Russia on the ground has been accompanied by the relaunch of cyber-attacks against Georgian government websites.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 16 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: cybercrooks launch ddos assault antifraud site comments Discuss  
Backhanded complimentUnidentified miscreants have launched a denial of service attack on a UK-based anti-fraud website.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 15 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn cybercrooks launch ddos assault antifraud site comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:09:53 -0600 (CST)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/bobbear_ddos/By John LeydenThe Register17th November 2008Unidentified miscreants have launched a denial of service attack on a UK-based anti-fraud website.Bobbear.co.uk, which fights money laundering by warning about groups attempting to recruit mules, was left unreachable on Monday after coming under a distributed denial of service attack. Net security firm Sophos reports that the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 13 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: cybercrooks making easy money virtual worlds comments Discuss  
EU agency launches campaignOnline gamers have become a soft target for cybercrime, with three in 10 users reporting the loss of items of virtual property through fraud.… read more »
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