The Police Department of Tredyffrin PA announced the discovery of a speeding ticket scam. Victims received emails with the following content: From: Speeding Citation (citation@safe-browsing.com) To: vfiorillo@phillymag.com Subject: Notification of excess speed First Name: Victor Last Name: Fiorillo Notification of excess speed Route: Mill Road Date: 8 March 2016 Time: 7:55 am Speed Limit: 40…
Cyber criminals have attacked Canada’s 14 main financial institutions with a ZeuS variant call “Maple”. The name refers to the maple leaf on the Canadian flag. These attacks started in January of 2014. The attacks have been reported by IBM’s Boston based security division, Trusteer. This variant of ZeuS has enhanced features such as an…
The FCC is trying to fight smartphone theft, but wireless carriers seem to be thwarting FCC efforts. The FCC claims more than 33% of all robberies involve a smartphone. Of course this works out well for cellular carriers who not only get to sell the victims a new phone, but also get fees when someone down…
i2Ninja is malware the has the ability to perform HTML injections and form grabbing in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. i2Ninja can also steal FTP and e-mail credentials. It also has a feature that targets poker sites. This malware hides communication between infected hosts and the command and control serve by transmitting over the Invisible Internet Project (I2P).…
After stealing $1.4 million using the TorRat Trojan 4 men were arrested by the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit. The criminals used the Trojan to steal money from over 150 accounts. TorRat is designed to steal online banking credentials. The bank robbers were able to hide their activities by putting their command and control server on…
Backdoor.Ploutus is malware transferred to ATMs. The malware was originally discovered by Symantec on September 4, 2013. At the time the malware was known to be isolated in Mexico. New evidence suggests the malware is on the move. The original source code uses Spanish for function names along with bad English grammar. This would indicate…
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