Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the past few weeks, the engineers from the Comodo Think Tank have looked at some of the most feared malware and ransomware today, matching it up against Comodo’s containment technology. And the results? Cryptolocker fails against Comodo Containment. Shylock and SpyEye malware fail against Comodo containment. Why? Because for CIOs, CISOs, and IT administrators…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It has been reported that networking firm Ubiquiti Networks was the victim of cyber theft, where more than $46million was stolen – based on the spoofing of executive emails. KrebsOnSecurity does a great job of highlighting some of the recent cyberthefts via email spoofing in the last few months alone. Spoofing or highjacking of executive…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo has discovered a new phishing scam, this time targeting American Express Credit Card customers. The mail instructs victims to download an attachment and then to re-authenticate their account. When the user downloads the attachment and fills the form, it sends the victim’s information to the attackers. The attachment is an HTML file, which, when…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo is happy to announce that, for the sixth consecutive month, our market share has grown as we’ve expanded even further our number one ranking in the SSL market. According to CEO Melih Abdulhayoğlu, “Comodo has earned each point of market share one by one. One user at a time, and one business at a…

Reading Time: 1 minute BitDefender, the well-known IT security firm, fell victim to a data breach in which hackers stole critical customer data. A hacker is demanding $15,000, or, if payment isn’t granted, will release the stolen customer information online. BitDefender failed to encrypt its customer data, and the hacker, who goes by DetoxRansome, broke into a BitDefender server…

Reading Time: 1 minute SpyEye is a type of malware which Cybercriminals use to steal online banking credentials, credit card data, passwords, and other personal information. SpyEye has infected more than 1.4 million computers globally, and its silent attack means you’re delivering your information straight to criminals. SpyEye works like this: 1. SpyEye uses in-memory injection, or DLL injection,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes From: WBC <info@wbc.com> Subject: 1 new Payment! Email content: The link “Click here to Sign In Westpac Online Banking” opens the web page: http://stokki.pl/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/genericons/web.php. Stokki.pl web site is registered from Poland and has the following details: https://www.nazwa.pl/ WHOIS database responses:

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo has detected a new Wells Fargo scam email that appears to be sent via a server in United States. The email contains a clickable company logo, which directs the user to the Wells Fargo official website. The links on the page are legitimate—except for one in the body of the text: “please follow the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember when online security meant avoiding those sites on the wrong side of the tracks? No more. Malvertising is booming—not only in the number of attacks, but in sophistication as well. “Malicious advertising” is the illegal effort of spreading malware through legitimate online advertising, which is notoriously difficult to protect against. It’s a silent and…

Reading Time: 1 minute Shylock is the notorious banking malware designed to fool you into giving your banking login and account details to Cybercrooks. If its name and behavior sound familiar, consider yourself well-read. A bit of trivia: Shylock earned its name by references in its code to William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Shylock works like this:…