[Update 30th October 2013: with regard to the ping gambit discussed below, please note that protection.com now responds to ICMP echo requests...
Twitter has been hit by a wave of spam promising “pure garcinia cambogia” - a vegetable extract used in weight loss supplements....
A new study aims to identify the sort of people who are most likely to fall for phishing scams - and has...
My colleagues at ESET Ireland, report that an all-too-familiar scam is currently hitting Irish mailboxes. I’ve talked about it at some length...
[A shorter version of this article was originally published – without illustrations – on the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s eCrime blog.] Phishing attacks...
Atlantic Media CTO Tom Cochran emailed employees a fake phishing email supposedly from “Google Apps”, and found that 58% clicked the link.
Instagram users were bombarded with pictures of fruit over the weekend in a spam attack that swept the photo-sharing network.
A telemarketing company has been hit with a $7.5m fine for repeatedly contacting people on the Do Not Call Registry - the...
Stop me if you’ve heard this before... While I was in London recently for the InfoSec exhibition and some other meetings, my...
In the wake of the cowardly and despicable bombings in Boston today, people who want to help need to be wary of...
Emailed wedding invitations have popped back up as a way to distribute malware Will this tactic join other malware-email staples like malicious...
The new ESET blog format must be striking a real chord with people. At any rate, job offers are just pouring in....
Answers to common questions about tax season scams in America and advice about fending off the malicious activity that seeks to exploit...
Below, you can see the textual part of a bank phishing email I received today (it also contained a Smile logo, which...
An invite to a conference in California proves to be a scam, and a very similar spam claims the very same conference...
In a world where nothing seems to be constant but change, it's good to know that there are, in fact, some things...
Money for nothing? Don't believe it: a variation on the Mystery Shopper scam that misuses the Pinecone Research brand.
Two rough and ready phishing emails that nevertheless tell us a great deal about the social engineering underlying more sophisticated, graphic-rich scams.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined two owners of a marketing company £440,000 ($713,000) for bombarding the public with millions of...
Many of us now buy goods and services online for the convenience and savings. The experts at ESET put together this guide...
Tempted to invest in colour diamonds or collectible bottles of wine? That irresistible offer could be a boiler room scam.