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Condé Nast has been hooked by a spear phisher, who with just one e-mail managed to get the publishing giant to wire him $8 million.
05 April 2011
A massive data breach at US cloud marketing and communications outfit Epsilon may have exposed the customer e-mail addresses of some of the country's largest banks.
04 April 2011
The recent RSA data breach was caused by an employee opening an attachment in a phishing e-mail which took advantage of an Adobe Flash vulnerability.
The world's most prolific phishing gang has ditched the technique in favour of the Zeus password-stealing crimeware that does not require the victim to hand over their financial account credentials, according to a report from APWG.
21 October 2010
US authorities have charged over 70 people accused of using the infamous Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million dollars from online bank accounts.
01 October 2010
A pair of cybercrooks have posted a phishing kit on hacker forums that lets them steal the data gleaned by those who download and use it, says security outfit Imperva.
23 July 2010
Security company Trusteer is warning of a new variant of the Zeus malware trojan that mimics the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode enrollment screen to rip sensitive data and passwords from PC users.
14 July 2010
The Zeus crimeware toolkit has morphed again, with the latest version concentrating on stealing login details for banks in Germany, Spain, the UK and US, according to CA Technologies.
13 July 2010
UK police have arrested two teenagers as part of an investigation into what is believed to be the biggest English language cybercrime forum in the world.
23 June 2010
The US banking industry is failing to protect its small business customers from a destructive epidemic of cyberfraud that is sweeping the nation, according to research by Guardian Analytics and Ponemon Institute
10 March 2010
PayPal is asking UK customers to download software from Iconix to help identify genuine e-mails sent by the eBay unit and weed out phishing messages.
09 March 2010
Portable computing firm IronKey has launched a USB-based system designed to protect US corporate banking customers from an epidemic of cybercrime caused by malware-infected PCs.
22 February 2010
Fraudsters have hit the international carbon market, using a phishing scam to steal around 250,000 permits worth over EUR3 million.
04 February 2010
Consumers around the world are becoming increasingly aware of, and concerned by, online security issues, yet more people than ever are falling prey to cyber-scams, according to a survey from RSA.
20 January 2010
Online payments outfit PayPal mistook a genuine e-mail it sent to a customer as a rogue phishing attempt.
04 December 2009
Just one per cent of online bankers in the US and Europe are tricked into visiting phishing sites but once there, over half of these end up handing over their login details, according to research from e-security firm Trusteer.
02 December 2009
The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a man and woman in connection with the infamous ZeuS Trojan, which has infected tens of thousands of computers around the world.
18 November 2009
A gang of fraudsters has been sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison for using a Trojan computer virus to steal around £600,000 from UK bank accounts.
16 November 2009
US electronic payments association Nacha has warned of a new e-mail scam designed to dupe small businesses into inadvertently downloading malicious password-stealing software in the guise of an ACH transaction report.
13 November 2009
The FBI has warned of a "significant increase" in fraud involving the exploitation of valid online banking credentials belonging to small and medium businesses, municipal governments, and school districts.
04 November 2009
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