Spam
HSBC customers, and online banking users in general, are targets of phishing and online banking scams always. The spammed message we have seen targeting HSBC users poses as a reply to a supposedly ear...
Lire la suiteFor Electronic Arts (EA) gamers, Origin is a familiar site - allowing gamers to purchase and download games online. Cybercriminals are also taking advantage of this site.
Lire la suiteSuperbowl scams and schemes are upon us once again as Superbowl XLIX nears. Our research shows a scam mail aimed at followers of this particular event.
Lire la suiteMost targeted attacks are typically carried out by attackers via social engineering. Email is one of the known entry points of attackers.
Lire la suiteJust days before Christmas we observed a surge in spammed emails that take take advantage of the widely celebrated event. One of the recent spam attacks we saw contained a malicious document entitled ...
Lire la suiteHolidays, personalities, disasters - all these are regular targets of cybercriminals. Once something new or something big is known to the public, cybercriminals find ways to use these in their regular...
Lire la suiteThe G20 Summit in Australia is the latest topic to be used in spammed messages. We encountered emails that urged recipients to join a rally that supposedly intends to raise awareness about The human r...
Lire la suiteFair warning to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers using Bankline, RBS' Internet banking service. Our research show a recent spike in the number of spammed messages using RBS Bankline as subject a...
Lire la suiteOn October 31, 2014 we observed spam mail that posed as an invoice notification and urge users to download a file from the link provided in the email. The downloaded file purported to be a .
Lire la suiteCybercriminals often leveraged what are popular and newsworthy items as part of their social engineering tactic. Case in point, we spotted spam samples that used the topic of Ebola to lure users into ...
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