A new wave of malicious FedEx spam delivers Trojans instead of packages, infecting users with malware when opening the attachments. In the last couple months, the Gamarue Trojan has spread intensely in the US, Australia, Croatia, Romania, Iran, the UK, Germany and Spain. “This tracking update has been requested and attached to this email,” the malicious message reads. “Reference information includes: Invoic...

 The Bitdefender anti-spam lab is issuing a warning over a fast-growing phishing campaign that steals bank account log-in data through a “verify your account” scam. Innocent bank, debit or credit card account owners and customers of financial institutions including The Royal Bank of Canada, Permanent TSB of Ireland, Discover Bank and American Express of the US or NatWest of the UK are targeted by fraudsters...

Yahoo users are again slammed by fraudsters who steal their credentials and block their accounts. The e-mails look like coming from a biology education platform, and warn users their accounts were deleted. The phishing messages manage to avoid the e-mail provider’s antispam filters and flood many inboxes. Users are tricked to give away their credentials with well-crafted e-mails about a fake “Yahoo! Email D...

In a brand new phishing campaign targeting Germans, scammers set their eyes on identification data of PayPal and ING customers in Germany. Germans should therefore take care with the e-mail that seems sent by PayPal or ING asking them to update their accounts for safety reasons. Scammers impersonate customer service representatives of the financial institutions seeking to help secure customers and their pri...

Bitdefender, creator of the world’s leading antivirus software, is issuing an alert to Valentine’s Day lovers, after spotting a wave of scams spreading worldwide before the love holiday. The company advises users to stay away from fake limousine offers and online ‘heart experts’ who claim to heal troubled relationships. This type of scam spreads through spam and redirects users to phishing, fraud and malwar...

Bitdefender is issuing an alert over the German Full Mailbox scam, a fast-spreading phishing campaign that steals Germans’ e-mail credentials through a phony survey. The scam, also in English, redirects users to a Dutch phishing website.  "Your mailbox has the storage limit, the 20GB as set by the administrator," reads a poorly crafted German-language email allegedly from the system administrator. "When you...

A new phishing kit was recently discovered and analyzed by EMC’s RSA Security division in which a specific group of victims was targeted for credentials theft. Assigning each address on the list a unique identifier, a user clicking the malicious link was first validated and then redirected to a phishing webpage if he made the list. Users not on the list were redirected to a 404 webpage. The “laser precision...

With the avalanche of security breaches this year, spear phishing attacks are to be expected in coming months. Hackers eviscerated data servers of highly visible companies and state institutions, (most recently NASA and the FBI) and had user private data put out on display - some on underground forums, but mostly on the Internet for everyone to see and use.  This provides criminals a lot of information- lik...

A new spam campaign uses the promise of hot dates to lure Germans to a page with promises of MacBooks, iPhones and iPads. The e-mail poses as an announcement from eHarmony to see photos of singles and “find love today” but it actually works to attract victims to a fraudulent web site. After clicking on the link promising photos of singles, users are redirected to a fake survey website and tempted with popul...

Spanish speakers are lured to buy international romantic songs but instead they have their identities stolen. Bitdefender spotted a spam campaign exploring users’ melancholy and depression, the two least welcome holiday guests.   Here’s a reason to be jolly: relationships are the most common trigger for Christmas depression, according to a study reported in 2007 by the Mayo Clinic. Also, two-thirds of women...