Phishing Email

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2014
New Zeus trojan variant digitally signed in the wild

Security researchers at Comodo have detected a new Zeus trojan variant enhanced with digital signature of its source code to avoid detection. The security community is once again menaced by Zeus banking trojan, a new variant of the malicious  ZeuS Trojan has been identified by researchers at Comodo AV labs. This instance presents an interesting feature, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2014
A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated.  Principal security firms and CERTs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2014
The marketing approach of cybercrime to phishing emails

Mark Sparshott, director at Proofpoint, explained that cybercrime manages phishing emails using techniques similar to those used by the marketing industry. Phishing is still considerable on of principal cyber threats for Internet users, it is even more used to spread malware and link to compromised websites, for this reason cybercriminals are adopting new and innovative […]