It isn’t uncommon for us to come across some type of new and emerging scamming technique used by scammers that we have never seen before. With that said, there’s a new ‘call support center’ scheme that is being exploited which combines a fake antivirus program and tech support scam. It is where cybercrooks [...]

It seems as if there is some type of new scam circulating on the 1-billion-user-strong social networking site, which we aptly know to be Facebook, just about every day. One of the latest scams to be birthed out of the handy work of creative cybercrooks is a malicious app claiming to allow Facebook [...]

Most people love when good wins over evil, so it is no surprise that most PC users believe the good guys, i.e. Internet security community, are winning the war on cybercrime. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth, as malware development is not child’s play and has evolved from being just a hoax [...]

The first quarter of 2013 has come and gone but not without discovering that our malware rate increase predictions have come to fruition according security firm Commtouch’s Internet Threats Trend Report for Q1 2013.
Nearly all types of malware threats have demonstrated an increase during the first quarter of 2013 when compared to December [...]

Computer security experts have uncovered a number of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns that rely on Adobe Reader vulnerabilities to distribute malware. The particular exploit, the CVE-2013-0640 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, has been used in the many various campaigns, such as MiniDuke, Zegost, and PlugX.

A computer security expert that goes by the online handle TibitXimer has made a claim that Skype accounts may be easily hacked through social engineering the Skype support team.
A number of Skype users have complained about their accounts being hijacked through a devious method where someone knows 3 to 5 of the [...]

Apple stands firm on their stance to evade efforts to repair a Safari bug that may be exploited to steal user passwords.
A flaw within a universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) issue is in question as a vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser identified by security researchers from Rapid7 was discovered. This particular flaw behind [...]

The global phishing survey for the second half of 2012 was recently released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealing how cybercriminals were able to break into the systems of hosting providers leading to massive phishing attacks on organizations.
There are only a handful of ways that hackers are able to spread their [...]

Mobile malware is exploding at exponential rates as security experts from Lookout Mobile Security discover a family of malware called ‘BadNews’ disguised as advertisements.
Surely the name of this new family of Android malware is properly named as it is very ‘badnews’ to know that between 2 million and 9 million Android users [...]

It would be a safe bet to place all of your money on the idea of your PC becoming infected with some form of malware through a year’s time. It would also be a relatively safe bet to guess that computers without antivirus protection are more likely, as much as 5.5 times more [...]