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Scam Of The Week

A while ago, ESET warned about a Ray-Ban scam campaign flooding Facebook via hacked profiles. Using fake ads that offered massive discounts, attackers tried to lure users into “buying” branded sunglasses, thus giving up their payment card details via an unsecured channel. Spread mostly via posts disguised as ads for Ray-Bans, the scam also tags a small group of the intended victim’s friends. Attackers have also created a lot of bogus Facebook pages and events indirectly leading...

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Leading provider of email messaging and web security solutions, AppRiver, has warned of an 'old fashioned' but equally effective phishing campaign currently circulating that is impersonating PayPal. Troy Gill, manager of security research at AppRiver explains, "Over the past few years we have seen explosive growth in malware and targeted spear phishing attacks being distributed via email. While those threats have necessarily garnered a lot of attention, it’s important to stay aware that other more...

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Researchers from ESET are today revealing their discovery of a new Facebook scam campaign that spreads a malicious browser plugin via social engineering techniques. The attack starts by luring a Facebook user into playing a video, most often titled “My first video”, “My video” or “Private video”. After clicking on the link, the victim is directed to a fake YouTube website where, instead of downloading and playing the video, he/she is requested to install an additional...

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ESET researchers have spotted a scam campaign on Facebook that steals the social network users’ payment card details. Instead of buying luxury sunglasses at a 90% discount, shoppers might end up victims of a payment card fraud. In several countries, among them Slovakia, Czech Republic, Chile, China, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, Facebook users are facing a wave of spam advertisements that are spread via hacked Facebook accounts which attackers have taken control of...

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Help – There’s an Imposter By Dulcie McLerie, account director at Eskenzi PR Recently I discovered that one of my professional email aliases had been used to create a Twitter account – and I had absolutely no idea! I didn’t receive an email from Twitter notifying me that an account had been created, it wasn’t showing up in my feed, I wasn’t receiving alerts and if I hadn’t tried to create an account using this...

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As part of a three month investigation, the Symantec Security Response team has unveiled a scam campaign targeting UK consumers with fraudulent ‘tax deduction’ emails containing information stealing Donx malware. These emails claim to be from the Income Tax Department of India, and the investigation revealed that the UK was the third most targeted country, receiving 14% of all the emails. India was the biggest target at 43%, followed by the United States (20%). In...

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An ongoing investigation by Symantec has revealed an influx of Instagram scams over the past few months, luring users towards adult dating sites in order to earn a commission. Symantec’s Security Response team detected an increasing number of fake profiles on the social photo-sharing platform, which having been posting photos copied from legitimate profiles. These profiles have been identified to use three approaches: Use the fake profile to follow users and like photos; Copy an...

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Norton has just revealed the most common January sales scams. These scams could include anything from impersonating parcel delivery services to running ‘too good to be true’ online offers leading to malicious websites, as well as fake refunds and text phishing. According to the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report: Among those who experienced cybercrime in the past year, 1 in 7 UK victims have had their financial information stolen as a result of shopping online Among the...

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PhishMe Warns of Fake Delivery Scams Currently Circulating PhishMe Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions, today warned UK consumers to be wary of fake delivery notifications arriving into email inboxes. Fuelled by Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Manic Monday, online spending in the UK has seen unprecedented highs and that’s what scammers are banking on. Consumers are expecting messages from retailers, and the delivery companies used to ship ordered goods, so guards...

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With Christmas fast approaching and Boxing day and January sales still to come, cybercriminals will be preparing to cash in on this busy period with targeted online scams which could ruin the festive fun. These scams could include anything from impersonating parcel delivery services to running ‘too good to be true’ online offers leading to malicious websites, as well as fake refunds and text phishing. According to the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report: Among those who...

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