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419 advance fee fraudsters abuse CNN’s ‘Email This’ Feature, spread Syrian...
Opportunistic 419 advance fee scammers are currently using CNN.com’s “Email This” feature to spamvertise Syrian Crysis themed emails, in an attempt to successfully bypass anti-spam filters. Ultimately...
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Cybercriminals offer anonymous mobile numbers for ‘SMS activation’, video...
For years, cybercriminals have been abusing a rather popular, personally identifiable practice, namely, the activation of an online account for a particular service through SMS. Relying on the basic...
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A peek inside a Blackhat SEO/cybercrime-friendly doorways management platform
The perceived decline in the use of blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) tactics for delivering malicious/fraudulent content over the last couple of years, does not necessarily mean that...
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Cybercriminals release new commercially available Android/BlackBerry...
Thanks to the growing adoption of mobile banking, in combination with the utilization of mobile devices to conduct financial transactions, opportunistic cybercriminals are quickly capitalizing on this...
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Cybercrime-friendly VPN service provider pitches itself as being ‘recommended...
We’ve recently spotted a multi-hop Russian cybercrime-friendly VPN service provider — ad featured not syndicated at a well known cybercrime-friendly community — that is relying on fake celebrity...
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Fake ‘WhatsApp Missed Voicemail’ themed emails lead to pharmaceutical scams
WhatsApp users, watch what you click on! A currently circulating fraudulent spam campaign is brand-jacking WhatsApp in an attempt to trick its users into clicking on links found in the email. Once...
View ArticleCybercrime Trends 2013 – Year in Review
It’s that time of the year! The moment when we reflect back on the cybercrime tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that shaped 2013, in order to constructively speculate on what’s to come for 2014...
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Fully automated, API-supporting service, undermines Facebook and Google’s...
Operating in a world dominated by millions of malware-infected hosts acting as proxies for the facilitation of fraudulent and malicious activity, the Web’s most popular properties are constantly...
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Newly launched managed ‘compromised/hacked accounts E-shop hosting as...
Regular readers of Webroot’s Threat Blog are familiar with our “A Peek Inside a Boutique Cybercrime-Friendly E-shop” series, originally started in 2012, highlighting the trend emerging at the time of...
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Managed TeamViewer based anti-forensics capable virtual machines offered as a...
Operational Security (OPSEC) has always been an inseparable part of the cybercrime ecosystem, especially in the context of preventing law enforcement agencies from tracking down the activities of...
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