Security News

The arsenal of SMS scammers, spammers and fraudsters (Help Net Security)
2015-07-17 07:00

Illicit commercial activity online has manifested into all things mobile. With revenue in the billions from mobile marketing, criminals are doing their best to harness the technology for their own mon...

Nigerian scammers are stealing millions from businesses (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 15:11

When someone mentions advanced fee or romance scams most people immediately associate them with Nigerian scammers. But there is another type of scam that these fraudsters actively engage in: the so-ca...

Scammers are draining payment cards linked with Starbucks customer accounts (Help Net Security)
2015-05-13 12:25

Scammers are actively targeting Starbucks customers and syphoning money from the credit or debit card they have tied to their Starbucks accounts. In order to perform this attack, the only thing the...

Police dismantle gang of online fraudsters and romance scammers (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 13:52

The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were involved in laundering the...

Scammers deliver malware via fake Steam game pages (Help Net Security)
2015-04-09 12:53

Aside from being regularly targeted with phishing scams, fake giveaways leading to online surveys, and having malware pushed on them via Steam chat, gamers using the popular gaming platform are now al...