Computer Crime

Scammers are trying to infect the computers of Facebook users by claiming their password has been reset and that a replacement credential is contained in an attachment.. A widespread phishing campaign is making the rounds that claims to be from Facebook but is meant to infect victims' PCs, researchers said.The fraudulent emails arrive with a note stating that the recipient's Facebook password was changed and they can find the new one in an attached ZIP file, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee Avert Labs, in a blog post.The malicious attachment actually contains an assortment of malware, depending on the message, including trojans and rogue anti-virus programs, he said. The scam is global in its reach and, as of Wednesday afternoon, the malware contained in the phishing run ranked as the sixth most prevalent global virus that McAfee was tracking.It is possible that machines compromised with the Cutwail or Rustock botnets are delivering the spam mess

Computer hackers are targeting Facebook users with an email scam that attempts to steal their passwords, Web security firm McAfee said.

Football fans making plans for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will likely face a surge in Internet crime targeting online ticket and hotel shoppers, security experts warned Wednesday.

A group of 27 Chinese advertising agencies have sent Google a letter calling for talks over compensation for possible business losses if the Internet giant pulls out of the country.

A group of 27 Chinese advertising agencies have sent Google a letter calling for talks over compensation for possible business losses if the Internet giant pulls out of the country.

China on Tuesday again warned Google not to stop filtering its web search engine results, as speculation mounted about the company's plans following its threat to leave over censorship and cyberattacks.

Facebook feds go undercover: Report shows FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media. The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

Google expects its Android mobile operating system to "flourish" in China, Google's chief financial officer said Monday amid a two-month standoff with Beijing over Web censorship and cyberattacks.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams told a gathering of the technology faithful on Monday that notorious censorship firewalls in countries such as China will give way to online innovations.

Losses related to cybercrime more than doubled from 2008 to last year, according to a report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Losses related to cybercrime more than doubled from 2008 to last year, according to a report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)The organization, a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center and the FBI, received 336,655 complaints with a reported $559.7 million in losses. In 2008, IC3 received 275,284 reports with $265 million in reported losses.Hoax emails claiming to be from the FBI, but which actually were created to steal personal information from the recipient, represented 16.6 percent of all complaints submitted. The next most common complaints were undelivered merchandise, followed by advance-fee schemes, identity theft and overpayment fraud.Crooks attempted to perpetrate other email scams by leveraging hit man threats, astrology or the economy. Still others involved rogue anti-virus software. Of all the grievanc

Feds report surge due largely to increase in advanced fee scams. Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) -- a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in 2009, with scams that falsely used the FBI's name generating the most complaints, the law enforcement agency said on Friday.

Losses from cybercrime and online scams more than doubled in 2009 to 559 million dollars as Internet criminals used more sophisticated techniques, an FBI-led task force said Friday.

Internet fraud losses doubled last year to $560 million; most common scammers posed as FBI. The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.

China on Friday warned Google it would face "consequences" if it stopped filtering its search results, after the firm threatened to leave the country over cyberattacks and web censorship.

A cyber-attack forced the closure of more than 150 websites hosted by Montenegro's main provider T-com, including the sites of the postal services and oil giant LukOil, officials said Thursday.

Google said Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyberattacks and state web censorship.

Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications.. Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications. URLs will be checked against a blacklist of fraudulent sites, such as ones hosting phishing attacks, malware or bogus, spam-related merchandise, the company said. The links will be shortened using Twitter's new URL shortener service, twt.tl, so bad domains can be easily identified in the future. If a user attempts to click on a link considered to be untrustworthy, users will be alerted via a warning screen. "By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter,"said Del Harvey, who heads Twitter's Trust and Safety team, in a blog post. "Even if a bad link is already out in an email notifi

Tax season bringing out the fraud artists; popular time for identity-theft scams. How do you know that the sender of an e-mail that has landed in your inbox is trying to steal your money or your identity? The message comes right out and asks for it.

US government cybersecurity efforts are being hampered by a need to better define the roles of the agencies responsible for defending against cyber threats, a US Congressional watchdog said Friday.