Graham Cluley Security News |
Bye bye, botnet! Kibosh put on Chamois Android fraud network
Graham Cluley Security News Chamois is not unlike DressCode in its use of malicious apps to build a botnet of Android devices. But it does stand out for several traits designed to help the malware evade detection. First, it uses a custom encryption file storage system to try to … |
The IRS is warning organizations to be on the lookout for scammers that blend CEO fraud with W-2 phishing.
David Bisson reports.
Computerworld |
Cyber criminals avoid fraud within their own ranks with new site
Computerworld Sometimes it's not easy being a cyber criminal. In addition to law enforcement and private security companies, cyber thieves have to battle fraudsters out to beat them at their own game, but a website offers to help. Ripper.cc has been maintaining a … |
A $ 1 billion Russia-based criminal gang has been bilking online advertisers by impersonating high-profile Web sites like ESPN, Vogue, CBS Sports, Fox News and the Huffington Post and selling phony ad slots, but that’s about to end.
Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops is releasing data today that will enable online advertisers and ad marketplaces to block the efforts of the group, which is cashing in on its intimate knowledge of the automated infrastructure that controls the buying and selling of video ads.
The group has been ramping up its activities since October so that it now reaps roughly $ 3 million to $ 5 million per day from unsuspecting advertisers and gives them nothing in return, says White Ops, which discovered the first hints of the scam in September.
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