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• Internet scams that dominated in 2012

  15.05.2013

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the 2012 Internet Crime Report - a summary of reported fraudulent activity in the past year.

• Scammers combine fake AV and bogus support calls

  13.05.2013

  Scammers have found a new way of relieving unsuspecting victims of their hard earned cash: they have begun combining fake AV with fake support calls.

• Eight indicted in $45M cybercrime campaign

  10.05.2013

  A four-count federal indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with participating in two worldwide cyberattacks that inflicted $45 million in losses on the global financial system in a matter of hours.

• Hijacking Facebook accounts via expired Hotmail accounts

  10.05.2013

  Three researchers from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, have discovered a simple way to hijack Facebook accounts by just by misusing existing features and responses of Facebook, Microsoft's Hotmail web-based email service and its Windows Live Messenger.

• Porn-downloading ransomware targets German users

  09.05.2013

  The German Anti-Botnet Advisory Centre is warning (in German) users about a new ransomware / BKA Trojan variant that accuses users of being involved in the reproduction of pornographic material involving minors (click on the screenshot to enlarge it): The message, purportedly coming from the Federal Criminal Police, includes for photos of children along with their name, date of birth and nationality, and claims that these photos have been found on the victims' computer, then asks them to pay a fine to make the charges go away and to unblock the machine.

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