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Tag Archives: phishing
Smartphones need better security safeguards
Are smartphone users more susceptible to phishing attacks than computer users? It would appear so, based on this recent case study posted by Trusteer CEO Mickey Boodaei. Trusteer looked at the log files of several phished sites and found that … Continue reading
FTC warns about bank merger phishing attacks
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an alert this week about an uptick in phishing attacks preying on people whose banks have recently failed or been purchased: Phishers (pronounced “fishers’) may send attention-getting emails that look like they’re coming … Continue reading
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Scammers Aiming Straight for the Money
Targeted “spear phishing”:http://www.wordspy.com/words/spear-phishing.asp campaigns are using money to lure victims. Brian Krebs “blogged”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/beware_of_error_messages_at_ba_1.html this week about a two part spear-phishing attack targeting small and medium sized businesses. The attack focuses on gaining access to circumnavigating two-part authentication used in banking … Continue reading
Phishers Embed Forms as Hooks
Alex Eckelberry at “Sunbelt”:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ “noted”:http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/evolution-of-phishing-embedded-forms.html a nifty phishing development: embedded forms. Phishers are spoofing forms from reputable sources- think PayPal, large banks, etc. Considering the “advances”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/18/spam-targets-a-wide-field-of-users in phishing: correllating name, position, and email addresses for high-level corporate interests; these emails … Continue reading
Bad Guys Get Caught
Allysa Myers at McAfee “blogged about”:http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/05/21/more-crimeware-arrests/ this “FBI press release”:http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/nh051908.htm announcing criminal charges against 38 alleged baddies from the U.S. and overseas. bq. According to the indictment, the Romania-based members of the enterprise obtained thousands of credit and debit card … Continue reading
Tagged cybercrime, government, phishing, stopbadware
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Rock Phish Adds a Trojan to Arsenal
Earlier this week, “RSA”:http://www.rsa.com/ issued a warning that Rock Phish has updated their “attack methods”:http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151558&WT.svl=wire_2. Dark Reading “writes”:http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151558&WT.svl=wire_2 “Rock Phish attacks are estimated to account for more than 50% of phishing attacks world-wide and to be responsible for the theft … Continue reading
Tagged phishing, security, stopbadware, trojan
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Some more interactive anti-phishing content
The folks at Carnegie Mellon University have put together a fun and informative game to learn about how to avoid phishing attacks: “Anti-Phishing Phil”:http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/quiz/index.html
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FTC educates, entertains
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a quite good educational site, “OnGuard Online”:http://www.onguardonline.gov, with online and print materials for educating consumers about malware, phishing, identity theft, and other online hazards. They also just released a “few”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/home/index.html “entertaining”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/office/index.html “videos”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/store/index.html that … Continue reading
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Beware of Scrooges
In many parts of the world, the holiday season is a time of joy and happiness. Sadly, though, many criminals and cranks take advantage of the season’s spirit to prey on unsuspecting internet users. Last year, we posted about Santa’s … Continue reading
Tagged holidays, malware, phishing, stopbadware
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