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By Mincom, on December 16th, 2009
Hackers using fake YouTube pages
A deceptive YouTube attack evolving as it spreads on the Internet is part of a growing trend of hackers to prowl popular online social networking communities in which people trustingly share web links and mini-programs.
“We are seeing tools like this not just for YouTube, but for MySpace, Facebook, America Online instant messaging …,” Trend Micro software threat research manager Jamz Yaneza told AFP.
“All the various social networking sites have been hit with some page or another.”
Hackers using the YouTube attack send people links to what are said to be must-see snippets at the Google-owned video-sharing website.
The links, instead, connect to convincingly realistic replicas of YouTube pages and tell people that a software update is needed to view a requested video.
Agreeing to the update lets the hacker install malicious software that could log keystrokes, steal data, or even take over people’s computers, according to David Perry of [...]
By Mincom, on December 16th, 2009
How fake sites trick search engines
by: Jordan Robertson
San Fransisco – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.
With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent websites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Online charlatans typically try to lure people into giving away their personal or financial information by posing as legitimate companies in “phishing” emails or through messages in forums such as Twitter and Facebook. But a new study by security researcher Jim Stickley shows how search engines also can turn into funnels for shady schemes.
Stickley created a website purporting to belong to the Credit Union of Southern California, a real business that agreed to be part of the experiment. He then used his knowledge of how search engines rank websites to achieve something that shocked him: His phony site got a [...]
By Mincom, on October 24th, 2009
Lagos – Nigeria’s anti-corruption police said on Friday they had shut down about 800 scam websites and busted 18 syndicates of email fraudsters in a drive to curb cyber-crime the country is notorious for.
“Over 800 fraudulent email addresses have been identified and shut down,” Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss Farida Waziri said.
“There have been 18 arrests of high profile syndicates operating cyber-crime organisations,” she added.
In a statement EFCC, which has previously relied on raiding cyber cafes and complaints from the public to clampdown on the crime, said it has now adopted smart technology working in conjunction with Microsoft, to track down fraudulent emails.
When operating at full capacity, within the next six months, the scheme, dubbed “eagle claw” should be able to forewarn around a quarter of million potential victims.
Nigeria has an unenviable reputation of being the epicentre of email scammers.
In March Spanish police arrested 23 people, mainly Nigerians, [...]
By Mincom, on October 18th, 2009
CyberSquatting is when unscrupulous individuals make exorbitant amounts of money by selling domain names containing trademarks of well known companies.
Usually the CyberSquatter will register a domain containing part of or the whole trademark of the victim company and then writes slanderous comments and content about the company or their products and services.
People visiting the CyberSquatter’s website, would then associate the content of the website with the company being victimized in the scam.
Companies falling victim to CyberSquatting scams are then forced to pay exorbitant amounts of money to buy the domain from the CyberSquatter in order to protect their goodwill.
TypoSquatting is a form of CyberSquatting, where the fraudsters rely on misspellings of the original URL and redirect the websurfer to their website. The websurfer often doesn’t realize that they have been redirected to the CyberSquatter’s website, where the CyberSquatter would then bring the victim company’s brand into disrepute.
Laws and regulation have [...]
By Mincom, on August 22nd, 2009
Malicious Apps Appearing Frequently
Security firm Trend Micro has been researching malicious practices on Facebook, and has discovered numerous rogue apps on the social networking site this week. They’ve been alerting Facebook of them as they find them, but apparently more keep popping up as fast as they are eliminated.
The apps come cleverly disguised as the most effective phishing attacks do. With all of the apps circulating around Facebook, it’s got to be hard to keep track of what all are legitimate ones anyway. Perhaps even scarier is that some seemingly legitimate apps are possibly being hacked into for malicious intent anyway.
All you can do is be careful where you click, and what info you’re giving away when you do click. Trend Micro offers the following advice:
Always check the URL displayed in your browser’s address bar before entering any sensitive information. Also check the true destination of a link before clicking [...]
By Mincom, on August 22nd, 2009
Phishing is a scam designed to steal unsuspecting users’ valuable personal data – such as login details, PIN numbers, credit card details, etc.
A phony Web site that looks like a trusted Web site – such as a bank or business site where you might store credit card details – is set up by scammers. These phony Web sites are often elaborately constructed to look exactly like the site they are impersonating.
The scam artists then randomly send out millions of e-mails that appear to be coming from the same trusted Web site – inviting users to come to the phony Web site and update their password or confirm their credit card details, etc.
If a user goes to a phony site and enters any sensitive details, the scammers will use these details to access their online bank accounts, make fraudulent purchases on their credit cards, or use the stolen data in other [...]
By Mincom, on June 25th, 2009
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The U.S. State Department calls Russian Bride Scams ‘Boris and Natasha’ scams because the Natasha usually turns out to be a Boris. The scam relies on the good will of lonely people, usually men, who will be too embarrassed to report the crime.
These inter-net scams are relatively simple. The criminals, either female con artists or men posing as Russian women in meeting their victims through personal ads on web sites such as America Online and Match.com, supposedly [...]
By Mincom, on June 25th, 2009
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