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(For more info about this topic see our previous post.) We’d like to hear your story so we can get a better picture of how compromised accounts happen, what the bad guys do with the accounts, and how people react. Of course we’ll publish the results as soon as we

Compromised account: evil people somehow get access to your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook account and use it to send messages/wall posts to people you know (who trust you).  A friend of mine was in the Swiss Alps on holiday in August. At an idyllic resort in the middle of nowhere he was delighted

Someone somewhere is trying hard. The “someone” is a cybercriminal or organization, and since the 8th of August they have been trying hard to infect millions of computers worldwide. The purpose of this vast computing force is still not clear.  The attacks of the last month have made extensive use

Email text: Attn.  It is my pleasure to inform you that the latest de=elopment regarding the news from the President of United State of America =Barrack Obama) to release all foreign transaction without any further dela=.The United Nations in conjunction with Federal Investigation Department /=The U.S.A Government do here by

Following the UPS and “map of love” outbreaks of the last few weeks, today saw further large amounts of email-attached malware. Today’s emails taunt recipients with claims of incorrect hotel charges that can only be remedied by opening an attached file. Some recipients will no doubt want to correct the

I got such a chuckle out of this message I had to share it. There is a whole new field opening up of how to handle people’s online presence after death (for example this Mashable post), however I would bet that sending the type of message below isn’t considered one

“The First 50.000 participants Get an iPhone 4 for free” – Is this real? No it’s not.  “The first 25,000 that signup get a free pair of Beats by Dre headphones” – Is this real? No it’s not. “The first 1,000 participants Will Get An facebook Phone for Free” –

In mid-August we covered a huge email-malware outbreak that mostly included UPS-themed emails. The same malware continues to be distributed as Fedex confirmations, but also as the “map of love”. The “map of love” attachments accompany emails promising “tourists” a map of interesting destinations worldwide.  Some variations of the text:

Commtouch labs has picked up a wave of phony Facebook friend request emails. Strangely, these all feature random Middle-Eastern/Asian names (not linked to actual Facebook accounts). Note that these requests arrive via email – not Facebook. Following any of the links leads to a malware download reported to be a