March 31, 2010 01:18 by
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Symantec analysts have intercepted a 419 or advance fee fraud e-mail with a new twist – the fraudsters are utilising a “Send this page to a friend” service provided by the well-known sports TV channel ESPN’s Soccernet website to deliver their scam.
According to Symantec’s Dan Bleaken, this is a particularly clever “improvement”...
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March 26, 2010 02:58 by
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Symantec Hosted Services analysts spotted a blocked targeted attack today that uses the FIFA World Cup 2010 to encourage the recipient to open a malicious PDF attachment. It uses a very fresh vulnerability in Adobe Reader.
Probably the most damaging type of Internet threat, a targeted attack takes place via e-mail and is designed to target a specific indivi...
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March 23, 2010 23:48 by
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Instant messenger (IM) attacks are on the rise with cyber criminals aiming their attacks at compromising legitimate IM accounts. According to Symantec researchers, the threats will largely be comprised of unsolicited spam messages containing malicious links to infected websites.
The driving force behind the expected rise, the researchers say, is the improvement o...
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March 23, 2010 03:09 by
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Ambush marketers throughout the world have learnt to their cost that it does not pay to take on football’s ruling body, Fifa. The Association is ferocious in the defence of its trademarks, yet evidence shows a tough reputation does little to deter the cyber scammers.
In the latest e-mail scam to come to the attention of Symantec investigators, recipients are cong...
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March 19, 2010 00:41 by
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Yet another lottery e-mail scam in what seems to be a never-ending stream purporting to be from Canada has been detected by Symantec investigators. The latest from “Canada Lottery Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw” claims recipients have won US$940 000 in the creatively titled “Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake Lottery International Programs”.
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March 18, 2010 04:58 by
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Yet another lottery-style e-mail scam has emerged - one with a twist that may fool even relatively savvy users. The cyber-crooks have hijacked some of the highest profile brand names – Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft - in computing in a clever bid to add legitimacy to their con.
According to Symantec’s Dan Bleaken, the e-mail message is simple carrying the subject...
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March 16, 2010 02:59 by
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e-Mail users should be on the lookout for yet another lottery scam promising sizeable cash rewards. Tagged “Good news from South Africa 2010”, the e-mail urges the recipient to open a jpeg attachment, which at first glance appears quite convincing.
Not so, according to Symantec’s Dan Bleaken, who says the first give-away is that the jpeg missive, purp...
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March 12, 2010 00:18 by
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The 2010 World Cup VIP Membership scam ranks as one of the most audacious and amusing encountered in the run-up to soccer’s premier event. The scammers use a simple e-mail to try and trick recipients into believing they are entitled to a VIP membership card offering outlandish benefits.
The latter include; free hotel accommodation, a South African entry visa, fre...
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March 10, 2010 01:33 by
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A major concern for organisers of the 2010 football World Cup is the current power supply crisis in South Africa that has seen prices rocket and rolling blackouts. Fifa, the South African government and state-owned power utility, Eskom, have moved quickly to allay fears, but in cyber space the scammers are watching.
Symantec researchers have uncovered a spam e-mail pur...
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March 8, 2010 02:38 by
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With around three months to go before football’s 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa, online consumers should be on the look out for cyber scams that look to exploit international interest in the host country and its icons.
That’s the word from Symantec’s Dan Bleaken who points out that there are no sacred cows. “For example, our researcher...
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