Three men from Russia, Latvia, and Romania have been indicted in the United States for creating and spreading the Gozi virus, designed to steal banking information from victims. The LA Times reports that Nikita Kuzmin, Deniss Calovskis, and Mihai Paunescu are accused of programming the virus, creating various “injects” such as fake bank login pages, […]
This basic Internet scams primer appeared on The Next Web today. It goes over four (five if you include the Nigerian Prince scam) methods scammers use to trick their victims, concentrating on email as the vector of choice to reach their marks. Focusing on email makes sense; many, if not most, malware infections come from email […]
The Ethiopian Red Cross’ web site appears to have been compromised and is being used in a phishing attack targeting Google login credentials. Sophos’ Naked Security reports that they received an email directing the reader to click on a link taking them to a fake Google Docs login page, designed to harvest usernames and passwords. […]
