Cybercriminals are sending spam to AT&T Wireless customers with huge bills in order to trick recipients into clicking on a link to malicious websites, according to Commtouch.
Internet security specialists from Commtouch a security company are cautioning of one familiar e-mail scam, which's yet again targeting Internauts, presenting 3 female along with 3 male husky puppies from Siberia at a pre-determined price.
AT&T has over 100 million wireless subscribers in the U.S. That huge group proved a tempting target for scammers. According to CommTouch a large outbreak of fake AT&T billing emails went out in the last few days.
Large outbreaks of phony AT&T wireless emails have been distributed in the last two days, according to Commtouch. The emails describe very large balances ($943 in the example below), that are sure to get aggravated customers clicking on the included links.
Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, according to a report released by StopBadware and Commtouch on Thursday.
Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, according to a report released by StopBadware and Commtouch on Thursday.
Malicious actors are often able to compromise legitimate websites without the site owners' knowledge, according to a recent report by Commtouch and StopBadware.
Web site protection will also get a lot of attention. According to new survey results from Commtouch and StopBadware to be discussed at the show, 36 percent of Webmasters aren't even sure how their Web sites have been used after an attack. However, 25 percent said that their Web sites have been used been to host or distribute malware, and 16 percent mentioned redirection of traffic to another site. Smaller numbers pinpointed misuse of their sites as spam pages or phishing pages.
According to Commtouch‘s Internet Threats Trend January 2012 Report covering web threats, phishing, malware and spam there were a lot of malicious Facebook activities during the past year. The report investigates the three stages of Facebook attacks: Social engineering tricks, how attacks spread between friends, and how cybercriminals benefit from the attacks as seen in this infographic.
Facebook frauders have figured out how to double their fun and are increasingly using scams to fuel affiliate marketing scams, according to a new report from Internet security firm Commtouch.
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