E-Mail Fraud Targeting Canadians Tries to Extract Money
Written by Administrator
Friday, 25 December 2009 06:00
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Center (CAFC) are cautioning netizens that an "emergency scam" is victimizing more-and-more people by means of compromised e-mail accounts.
Adobe is probing probable security flaws in its Acrobat and Reader applications, which if exploited could let a hacker execute malware on Windows computers. The flaw reportedly occurs in the JavaScript function of Adobe's Reader and Acrobat.
According to the security company Barracuda Networks' warning issued on December 15, 2009, Internet scammers are exploiting people's enthusiasm about Google Doodle to disseminate malicious software. Google Doodle refers to the graphics that frequently captures Google logo to mark important occasions or holidays.
As per Kaspersky's top 20 malware list, revealing adware, malicious programs and potentially unwanted programs detected and sanitized for the first time, numerous fresh malware entered the threat landscape.
According to Symantec's State of Spam and Phishing report for December 2009, 87% of the total e-mail traffic during 2009 was comprised of junk mails or spam.
