Tag Archives: phishing

Fake confirmation emails from Walmart, Home Depot, others in circulation

Cybercrooks target busy holiday shoppers with phishing scheme. After all that shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, consumers are reporting a bunch of phishing emails that look like authentic communications from poular stores. Malware-infected emails are reportedly coming from Walmart, Home Depot, Target, and Costco. The catch is these are not from the authentic […]

Donate generously on Giving Tuesday, but watch out for scams

#GivingTuesday is a day dedicated to give from the bounty we have received. After the shopping free-for-all of Black Friday, the local discoveries of Small Business Saturday, and the online click frenzy of Cyber Monday, people the world over have a day for giving thanks. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, […]

Home Depot discloses that 53 million customer email addresses were stolen

The Home Depot security breach last spring has gotten worse. In addition to the 56 million credit-card accounts that were compromised, around 53 million customer email addresses were also taken, according to a statement from Home Depot about the breach investigation. Home Depot assures its customers that no passwords, payment card information like debit card […]

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Scammers pose as company execs in wire transfer spam campaign

Innocent-looking payment requests could result in financial loss for companies as finance department employees targeted with fraudulent emails.
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Golpistas se passam por executivos de empresas em campanha de spam de transferência bancária

A Symantec observou uma campanha de spam envolvendo e-mails falsos de solicitação de transferência bancária. A técnica não é nova, e teve cobertura na imprensa este ano, mas houve um aumento neste tipo de spam recentemente

Usuarios de Dropbox son blanco de estafa de phishing

Fake Dropbox login page attempts to steal credentials for popular email services.

Página falsa de acceso a Dropbox intenta robar credenciales de los usuarios de este servicio y de algunos de correo electrónico.

Ebola scams spread faster than actual disease in panic-striken U.S.

Cybercrooks use popular stories in the news to deceive people into giving up confidential information. The dreaded disease Ebola that is spreading rapidly throughout West Africa made landfall in the US recently, and since then many news agencies have sensationalized the “outbreak” with constant coverage. Panic has grown as politicians raise the public’s fears and […]