A campaign that takes advantage of vulnerabilities on the CNN website is flooding Twitter users with diet spam, according to eHackingNews. Cyber-criminals exploit the open redirect flaw to post spam messages that look like they're coming from the reputable news organization. “The diet porgram you told us about yesterday is soo good!”, spammers tweeted, then redirected users to a malicious website. “I love m...

A new spear phishing attack targeting executives claims victims in English-speaking countries by appealing to their vanity. The “Top 100 Executives” scam was resurrected by cyber-criminals, who are contacting directors to inform them that their biography was selected for a prestigious magazine. All the ingredients of a well-crafted phishing attack are present: appeal to vanity and a sense of urgency, which ...

The SysAdmin scam that makes people believe they need to restore their account because of hacking attempts went international. The Spanish are now sending their passwords straight to the cyber-criminals’ database. The e-mail targeting the Spanish in their language claims the user's email account needs to be urgently restored. “Several incorrect login attempts on your email account,” the phishing e-mail read...

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...

A wave of Russian dating spam drags users to a dangerous website loaded with Javascript malware. The Bitdefender Labs discovered an increasing number of e-mails designed to play on users’ virility to spread to inboxes worldwide. The Russian girls’ messages are straightforward and efficient, prompting users to respond fast to the bait. “Let’s act on our feelings and get to know one another,” one of the infec...

“Hello mom. I know I haven’t called you in a while, but here I was, at the office, and got an e-mail with a major discount for Mother’s Day. When can I stop by to drop off the public toilet survival kit I got for you?” If you find yourself having this implausible conversation with your mom, check your inbox – you’re probably infected with the latest Mother’s day spam. Scammers mostly pull out the same old t...

As the travel industry heavily started promoting summer deals earlier; scammers, too, have plunged into the trend with spammed malware campaigns using holiday hooks. Flight confirmation emails are the top lure this season, followed by hotel deals, extravagant cruise packages and vacation loans. In season, holiday spam can reach up for up to 6% of all spam. And if a regular “business spam day” means some 1.8...

Spanish curiosity is once again exploited by cyber-criminals, who are making money from two main scams. “Quien te elimino de Facebook” (“Who deleted you on Facebook”) and “Creditos de Facebook gratis” (“Free Facebook Credits”) are making rounds on the social network, spreading through fraudulent websites on Google’s blog service, Blogger. More than 42,000 Spanish users have already liked the scam that promi...

The dust has barely set on the Bank of America security breach, and crooks unleashed a series of aggressive spam campaigns that include the Bank of America in the title as bait. In the context of a security breach, the name of the bank was used to catch customers’ attention, infect them with malware, have them type in sensitive data or entice them into sending money in advance for a service they will never ...

A new Facebook page is attempting to trick the curly-haired masses on the world’s most popular social site with an offer of free hair straighteners, according to Hoax Slayer. The scammers apparently aim to gather enough likes and shares so they can sell the page to other scammers, without ever straightening a single curly hair. “We have got 569 GHD Hair straighteners that can't be sold because they have bee...