The NFL season just began, and the virus writers are already hard at work trying to turn it to their advantage. This weekend, Commtouch labs identified an outbreak of NFL-related spam messages with links to a malware site. The content of the messages varied along this theme: “Football is back, Life may resume again! Never [...]
McAfee security researcher Nick Kelly raised a concern on his blog that the recent rash of Excel spam could develop to include macro exploits. We did see a mini-macro comeback last year, so this is certainly a possibility, though I haven’t seen any samples yet.
PDF spam could also carry a potential malware threat as that [...]
The FBI sent out a press announcement yesterday, warning the public about three scams. The three scams are:
-e-cards containing malware
-fraudulent emails misrepresenting the FBI using pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letter head, and/or banners
-email claiming to be from an official of the U.S. military sent on behalf of American soldiers stationed overseas
We have seen [...]
In our era of gadgets and the Internet, online gaming is a popular feature of game systems like Sony PS2 and PS3, Microsoft Xbox, or Nintendo Wii. Apparently, along with the joy of online gaming come all the Internet risks too.
According to this McAfee blog post by David Rayhawk, hackers have been working on exploiting [...]
“These perpetrators effectively cut out the middleman of the old-fashioned pump-and-dump scheme, eliminating phony stock promotions, creating their own artificial trading demand, and consummating their fraud in as little time as a couple of hours.”
- SEC Office of Internet Enforcement Chief John Reed Stark
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