We’re seeing a lot of freshly compromised Tumblr accounts, all of which are posting up an image file located here that claims to be a “Tumblr Staff Blog” (it isn’t), proclaiming the joys of “Free $50 Starbucks gift cards”. Here’s an …

There have been warnings over the last few days regarding a Halo 4 Beta invite scam. Information was pretty thin on the ground, however, so I decided to take a look – especially as there were reports of phishing. Here’s …

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (simply known as US-CERT) is the latest bait phishers used to get users to install malware on user systems. US-CERT is a highly esteemed and trusted body of security professionals who tackle cybersecurity issues in …

The rather awesome Steam gaming platform has a festive competition running at the moment – perform certain tasks in a selection of games drawn each day (or sign up to a few non gaming activities like join a forum, or …

Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild. The scam arrives as an email that directs users to the URL, data-server(dot)host(dot)org/email/protect/chase/. click to enlarge After Chase clients provide their …

This social media “stalking” thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We’ve seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called “app” that Twitter purportedly released to track a user’s stalker. Only …

Our monthly Top Ten threat detection report for the month of November is now available to take a look at, along with information on some of the scams we’ve seen these past few weeks including emails tempting users with infected …

As Internet usage is constantly growing, malicious, phishing, scamming and fraudulent sites are also evolving and making their way to any user’s network if given the chance. A recent survey commissioned by GFI Software among small and medium-sized businesses in …

One of the biggest concerns for IT administrators is web security and protecting the network they are responsible for. Most IT administrators do a pretty good job of protecting their networks from “the usual suspects”; however, there is one aspect …

With such a widespread increase in malicious, fraudulent, phishing and scamming sites appearing daily, what guarantees does the IT administrator have that one of the employees will not visit a website that has been compromised and infected by malware? Very …