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A new phishing scam purports to be MYOB invoices – but really contains a novel banking trojan.
A battery-saving app enables attackers to snatch text messages and read sensitive log data – but it also holds true to its advertising.
How can we keep up with the social media threat landscape as it grows to include more malware, hacks and scams? We discuss on the latest Threatpost podcast.
The operation also resulted in the seizure of nearly $2.4 million and the recovery of about $14 million in fraudulent wire transfers, said the FBI.
A glitch in Auth0 could allow attackers to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors.
As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to rise in 2018, it has also paved an easy path for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.”
Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news.
Nigerian-based cybercriminals are growing more dangerous as they add sophisticated tools to their arsenal,  including complex remote access trojans, a new report reveals.
29 September 2015 - 10:30, by , in News, No comments
Facebook plans to charge users £5.99 ($9) for “subscription gold” that will keep our accounts private? Outrageous!!! No, seriously, it is outrageous. But that isn’t keeping the Facebook rumour du jour from being passed around. Here’s the whole, bogus shebang: I havent had time to check it out and won't get around to it until...
21 September 2015 - 12:58, by , in News, No comments
As you probably heard, Facebook recently announced that it is working on a “Dislike” button at last. Well, perhaps not exactly a Dislike button, or perhaps not only a Dislike button, but something beyond just good old “Like”, anyway. And “Dislike” was definitely one of the, errr, likely and well-liked possibilities in Mark Zuckerberg’s recent...