Sophisticated spam mails after data leak in company database
A German company, selling printer ink cartridges online, fell victim to cyber attackers who stole parts of their customer data.
Sophisticated spam mails after data leak in company database
A German company, selling printer ink cartridges online, fell victim to cyber attackers who stole parts of their customer data.
Update: Beware of new Windows activation Trojan
Another way to get rid of this malware, without the need of pc expertise. Defeat it with its own weapons!
Beware of new Windows activation Trojan
Bad time to change your mind, in case you are using a non-licensed / trial copy of Microsoft Windows. What the scamsters promise you here, is not what you think you'll get - Don't fall for their trick! This new ransomware in Windows style reminds us of the German Federal Police blackmailing Trojan…
Lady Gaga will follow you on Twitter...
Scamsters have long identified social network users as valuable targets and therefore do not stop inventing new ways to fool them. We now discovered a new and interesting approach to lure internet surfers into a costly SMS quiz and to draw personal information from them. The self-claimed quiz site…
Ghosts remain: Osama Bin Laden may be haunting your PC
We have reported numerous times about the dangers that lure around as soon as any kind of special holiday is around or a hot topic floods the news. And, as expected: Recently, there has been various malware connected to Osama Bin Laden. Let's have a look at two examples:
Spammers pose as German Federal Ministry of Finance
The German Federal Ministry of Finance issued a warning to inform about fake emails that promise a tax refund. To receive the refund, the only thing the victim, ehm, excuse me, the taxpayer has to do, is to submit quite a lot of personal data to an HTML form that is attached to the email.
System maintenance is important, but don’t fall for new fake helpers!
A new kind of Scareware software troubles PC users: Fake system tools promise to help you keeping your system clean and stable – but, in fact, they make nothing but trouble.
G Data Security Evangelist Eddy Willems speaks about the risks of social media and the cloud at the VB Conference
G Data’s Security Evangelist Eddy Willems will speak at this year’s Virus Bulletin Conference in Vancouver. Alongside Righard Zwienenberg, Chief Research Officer at Norman ASA, Willems will be explaining the security risks that companies often don’t even think about: the (un)intentional harm…
Pharmacy spam uses Twitter as disguise
Today’s hot offer: Love performance enhancing small blue and yellow pills in various packaging sizes. But the product range offers even more than that. The online pharmacies have a huge number of other drugs and pharmaceuticals available. But buying (essential) medicine through such websites is…
How to become a (multi)millionaire
The e-mail flood with advance-fee fraud subjects does not seem to come to a hold! Sometimes you supposedly have a rich uncle in Africa and should inherit his properties; a wealthy benefactor wants you to take care of a charity donation and manymore unbelievable scenarios. The variety of invented…