Security Incidents News

Red Condor's Spam Trip Wire Detects a New Computer Virus

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:30 -0500

Red Condor's Spam Trip Wire feature instantly detected and blocked a new email virus campaign designed to scare email users with bogus legal action for activities including illegal music downloads. The virus campaign detected at 8:29 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 22, 2009, calls attention to users' supposed recent activity at sites commonly used to share and download copyrighted movies, music and software.

Finjan's Research Unveils Botnet Trading Platform for Hacked PCs

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:32:25 -0500

Finjan Inc. announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) managed to research a trading network and botnet, where compromised PCs are bought and sold for profit. In the second issue of its "Cybercrime Intelligence Report" of 2009, Finjan shows the operations of the Golden Cash network consisting of an entire trading platform of malware-infested PCs.

Less Than 50% of Attacks Are Detected; United States and China Still Top the Distribution of Malware on the Internet.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:54:19 -0600

According to Cyveillance's Latest Cyber Intelligence Report: Detection Rates for Malware are Getting Worse and Anti-Phishing Filters Detect Less than 50% of Attacks. Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing. This data was captured as part of Cyveillance's "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report," which was issued today.

Biggest Hotel Chains Fall Victim To Online Booking Fraud

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:13:01 -0600

A well-organized online fraud is scamming over 71,000 travelers each month as they book rooms online at some of America's best known hotel chains, including Hyatt, Clarion, TraveLodge, Comfort Inn, Red Roof, EconoLodge, Super 8, Ramada, Days Inn, and Wyndham, according to an exclusive report by FraudTip.com.

Back To The Basics : Human Assisted Anti-Spam Filtering

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:28:21 -0600

Email spam has been growing exponentially for several years to a total of several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused and annoyed millions of email users worldwide. Spam intrudes, invades and interrupts time whenever a person checks for email messages, wasting precious time in the process.

RBS WorldPay Hacked , 1.5 mil. Cardholders At Risk

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:24:25 -0600

RBS WorldPay (formerly RBS Lynk), the U.S. payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced that its computer system had been improperly accessed by an unauthorized party.RBS WorldPay has urgently taken a number of important steps to mitigate risk in response to this situation.

Continental Flight 1404 Headlines Used by Hackers to Trick those Concerned About the Denver Air-crash

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:19:15 -0600

Webroot, a leading provider of security solutions for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, has detected a new string of rogue antivirus applications that use URLs related to Continental Flight 1404 and other current news to manipulate consumers into purchasing phony Internet security protection. The URLs link to a download site which triggers a series of fake infection and firewall pop-up messages, bearing the generic name "Spyware Guard 2008."

SC Magazine Best Buy Award for DLP goes to Trend Micro LeakProof

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:03:13 -0600

Trend Micro Inc., a global leader in Internet content security, announced that Trend Micro LeakProof was awarded five out of five stars and received SC Magazine's Best Buy award. Trend Micro LeakProof appliance received this recognition in the Extrusion Prevention group test.

Breaking Google Blogspot CAPTCHA and MobileMe - Major Threats of October 2008

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:51 -0500

MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for October 2008. Analysis highlights the increase of spam blogs on Google Blogspot and a rise in spam sent using fake MobileMe (formerly mac.com) accounts as a result of spammers finding it easier to obtain CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) breaking tools. To maximize the use of the fraudulent MobileMe email addresses, spammers link them with fake accounts created on social networking sites.

Spam, Child Porn, Illegal Pharmaceuticals, and Stolen Data Make The Web Axis of Evil

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:50:47 -0500

Defying geography and law enforcement, the Internet's "Axis of Evil" is anchored by the Russian Business Network (RBN) and supported by a series of organized criminal cyber networks and ISPs that look the other way, according to a report released today on Internet Evolution. Other points along this so-called axis with RBN include Cernel, Esthost, EstDomains, Hostfresh, and Rove Digital, among many others.