Google AdWords being targeted by Phishers

A new stream of phishing emails aimed at user using Google Adwords have been noticed. The ongoing practice of phishing for personal information, especially financial details like credit card numbers makes this kind of crime low risk with high gain for the criminals. Phish mail Google’s online advertising brings a high level of attention from […]

Indian Income Tax Department Phishing Site

Today I received an unusual email which was supposedly sent by “Indian Income Tax Department” indicating that I am eligible to receive a tax refund of Rs. 820.50. Below is the image giving idea about how the email looked like. This reminded me of fake Income Tax Refund website that had made the rounds in […]

Microsoft releases out-of-band update for IE vulnerabilities

The security update fixes six memory corruption vulnerabilities and issues in handling of URL validations. It is also believed that MS has also included patch in same update for a flaw used by attackers targeting Google and other major corporations recently. In past few weeks there has been increase in attacks using the vulnerability by […]

Security Patch released for BIND 9.6.1

Internet Systems Consortium announced the release of the BIND 9.6.1-P3 security patch to address two cache poisoning vulnerabilities, “both of which could allow a validating recursive nameserver to cache data which had not been authenticated or was invalid.” More details follow below links CVE-2010-0097 CVE-2009-4022v6

Cyber Attacks adding up to the already disturbing relations of India & China

Recently Indian government official admitted that there was an attempt to attack and steal the information from offices of National Security Adviser through hacker attack. More details on this news announcement can be found at: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/China-tried-to-hack-Indias-computers-Narayanan/articleshow/5473640.cms The announcement was made only after looking at similar attack news in US of cyber attack on US defense […]

Buffer overflow in QuickTime

A remotely exploitable vulnerability in QuickTime has been discovered. Information on vulnerable version of QuickTime available on Bugtraq 32540 The vulnerability can be exploited by malformed .mov files. The latest version of QuickTime is not affected by this vulnerability.

Cybercriminals have started targeting Haiti Donations

As expected cybercriminals are taking advantage of those want to donate money for Haiti earthquake relief. We had already warned the readers to not to respond any unsolicited emails asking for quake relief fund in the message. It has been observed that Rouge application generators are doing SEO poisoning on popular search engine results. People […]

Cybercriminals may make use of the latest earthquake event that rocked Haiti

Small island of Haiti was devastated after it experience a major earthquake recently. Thousands of people have been killed and many left homeless. Our prayers are with the people of Haiti for faster recovery out of it. I would like to bring here the point that cybercriminals always make use of the latest happening news […]

One more phishing attack on Indian bank

After the holiday season is over and people resumed their office with new year work load ahead, it all started with phishing scam on one of the India’s popular nationalized bank. Since 8th January I had been observing that I had been receiving phishing emails targeting Punjab National Bank of India. The email looked as […]

Possible Android based fake applications

New Google Android based mobiles phone are being released one by one and the trend of fraudulent android applications has started to surface.Among the several applications that were available on Android Market, it was observed that few moblie banking applications were providing the facility of just connecting the user to mobile banking website of the […]