It’s happened again. Scammers have leveraged Phishing to gain access to W2 information at several firms, including technology powerhouse Seagate. No company is immune to these types of social attacks, and organizations both large and small have become victims to a finance-based scheme that has a long reach. Last week, Sunday in fact, Snapchat disclosed that someone had posed as the company’s CEO...

From Bloomberg The malware known as ZeuS and its rogue creator have been at the cutting edge of cyber-crime for nearly a decade. With repeated enhancements, ZeuS and its offspring became juggernauts of cyber bank robbery—turning millions of computers into global networks of zombie machines enslaved by criminals. Conservative estimates of their haul reach well into hundreds of millions of dollars...

From SecurityWeek. The complete source code for the Android remote access Trojan (RAT) called Dendroid has been leaked online, which researchers from PhishLabs have found contains several vulnerabilities. “The lack of user input validation in Dendroid’s control panel is severe, especially when you consider the level of operational security needed in even smaller crimeware campaigns,” PhishLabs...

From SC Magazine: Hackers are compromising online banking and social media users in a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack campaign that involves posing as major organizations – and they are doing it without setting off alerts, according to researchers with PhishLabs. More than 70 recognizable financial organizations around the globe have been targeted so far in the campaign, according to PhishLabs...