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Tom Kelchner writing over at the Sunbelt Blog is signaling that a new phisher is on the loose, sending out fake emails to MobileMe subscribers demanding that they update their credit card information, in what looks like a typical phishing scam. This isn’t, by far, the first (and likely not the last) time Mobile... |
12 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new wave of malicious emails that target Facebook users. The messages falsely claim that a fresh login system is being implemented, directs people to a phishing site and also attempts to infect them with malware.This new spam campaign is interesting because it incorporates two different... |
9 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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As a direct result of a phishing scheme, the credentials for approximately 20,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts have been leaked in the wild, and published on the Pastebin website. The leak was made public at the start of this week, and confirmed officially by Microsoft. This means that approximately 20,000 Windows L... |
7 October 2009
10:20 GMT |
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The BBC claims to have located a list containing 20,000 webmail login credentials on the same website where similar information about 10,000 Hotmail accounts was recently leaked. In addition, Google announced that it found a separate document containing email logins obtained through an industry-wide phishing attack.T... |
7 October 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that sensitive data for several thousand Windows Live Hotmail accounts has been leaked in the wild. The details, including the passwords and usernames necessary to access the Hotmail accounts, were published on Pastebin. Microsoft has asked the website to remove the data as it was i... |
6 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that Twitter users have been the target of several new, malicious attacks recently. These include a campaign distributing fake antivirus pieces of software, a Twitter-credential phishing attack and Google jobs-related scam. A few days ago, Sophos' Graham Cluley reported that several Tw... |
25 September 2009
07:08 GMT |
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MasterCard International Incorporated of Purchase, also known simply as Master Card, filed at the end of May 2009 a complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Jose Carlos Bisognin Panzenhagen from Porto Alegre, Brazil. After judging procedures, the WIPO Arbitration Center concluded that ... |
29 August 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Facebook was the target of two independent and non-related phishing attacks through its applications service. Two security experts discovered, investigated and reported these attacks to the social network's admins, who took all the protection measures. The first one was reported by Christopher Boyd and was an a... |
17 August 2009
08:48 GMT |
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According to the monthly reports issued by Symantec Corporation, State of Spam and State of Phishing, spam email has dropped 8% since last month, while phishing attacks have increased by a staggering 52% during July. The majority of spam topics continued to deal with Barack Obama’s political issues and the deat... |
10 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Email spam and phishing are as big a hassle as they have ever been. The numerous attempts to block or reduce spam email numbers have managed to make a small, temporary dent in the overall spam traffic at best. The same is true for phishing, as, even with ever-greater security measures, the number of attacks has been ... |
14 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Apple has posted / updated a Support article on its website outlining what a legitimate e-mail from Apple will never ask users to do. This way, they should ensure that they do not hand their personal information to a third party. Apple begins by signaling that an iTunes Store customer will never be asked to provide ... |
30 June 2009
09:21 GMT |
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A hacker claims to have tricked Steve Jobs into entering his credit card information on a fake Amazon.com, a practice commonly known as phishing, or whaling, in the case of celebs like Apple's iconic CEO. “I got myself a hold of this information,” the hacker wrote in an email sent from a secure Hush... |
15 May 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users against fake emails claiming to be from the Windows Live team asking them for their account data. The Redmond company has described a scenario in which the fraudulent email messages masquerading as being sent from Windows Live request sensitive information such as username, password, date o... |
17 March 2009
10:52 GMT |
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A report claims that a scammer has sent out spam spoofed to appear to come from Apple, in another attempt to con MobileMe users into providing their credit card information. The phony e-mail directs users to a fake site designed to look like Apple's. Users unknowingly follow the email link and enter their inform... |
27 February 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Users of MobileMe have been receiving a new e-mail that looks like it comes from Apple, warning that attempts to renew the MobileMe subscription have failed because of a problem with charging the credit card. The message prompts users to log in and update (provide) their credit card information on a site that looks l... |
12 February 2009
07:07 GMT |
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There are very few people in the world studying the field of behavioral biometrics today, and there are even fewer those who do it well. It's a painstaking job, which requires its practitioners to go online around the clock and monitor online behaviors on sites such as those hosting poker games. Coordinated atta... |
10 February 2009
02:42 GMT |
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The gaming industry has rarely been the victim of Internet frauds but it seems that with the increase of popularity for online digital content distribution networks, like Steam or GameTap, hackers have begun exploiting the users of such websites by luring them in with fake promises in order to make them divulge their... |
27 January 2009
11:01 GMT |
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This week, Google drove one of the final nails in the coffin of Firefox 2.0, by discontinuing a service designed to keep users of the now obsolete version of the open source browser safe while browsing. As of January 20, 2009, the Mountain View search giant shut down the Phishing and Malware Protection service that i... |
21 January 2009
08:38 GMT |
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A phishing campaign that makes use of the Google Calendar features was recently distributed to the users of the service. The same techniques were employed by another Google Calendar-based phishing scam that made the rounds during May and June 2008. According to a report by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant ... |
30 December 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Sophos warns of a new phishing campaign targeting the users of the Hi5 social network. The e-mails masquerade as a friend invitation, and the contained link directs the users to a fake login page. It's no news that identity thieves are using social engineering tactics in order to trick unsuspecting users into ha... |
15 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning about a vulnerability in the Asterisk open source telephony engine that can supposedly allow attackers to compromise legit VoIP servers and perform thousands of fake phone calls per hour. Digium, the company behind Asterisk, says the warning is... |
8 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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Analysts from security vendor Sophos warn of two new online scams that are targeting domain owners. The campaigns are focusing on phishing login information for eNom and Network Solutions accounts and they might be the result of ICANN starting the de-accreditation procedure for EstDomains, a registrar commonly used b... |
31 October 2008
10:45 GMT |
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Security researcher Aviv Raff has recently gone public on a few flaws he discovered in the iPhone OS a couple of months ago. While Apple was notified of the discovery of the flaws at the time, the company is yet to issue a patch. Since being notified of the vulnerabilities, Apple has released as many as three firmwar... |
3 October 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Reports are flying in saying that a scammer using an e-mail purporting to be from Apple is targeting MobileMe users. The e-mail claims there are problems with the users' subscription, and asks of them to re-enter their credit card information.As many of you should know (and especially former .Mac users), the tra... |
8 September 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The RSA FraudAction Research Labs claims that the Eastern European Rock Phish team is preparing for something big and that it is upgrading its infrastructure to integrate the Asprox botnet. According to their report, this upgrade might be the reason why its phishing activity has decreased for the past ... |
6 September 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Every time a natural disaster strikes, certain folks see it as an opportunity to launch spam attacks aimed at convincing people to donate money that finally ends up in their own pockets. Although, at the time of writing, no incidents of this kind related to Hurricane Gustav have been registered yet, authori... |
2 September 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Many of us receive unwanted messages claiming to have been sent on behalf of banks, but which are in fact phishing attacks attempting to steal private information, along with any money we might have in the accounts. Those who realize that the so-called bank employees are nothing but snakes in the grass can sometimes ... |
1 September 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Symantec has just released its monthly spam report for July, and it shows the appearance of new ingenious ways that hijackers use in order to either sell products through spam or infect the targeted machines. The latest artifice that tricks people into clicking on images that lead to webpages hosting malicious conten... |
21 August 2008
03:21 GMT |
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The Register is reporting that CardCops, a credit card protection service owned by the Affinion Group, has spotted sensitive information belonging to several hundred people with Mac.com accounts being "traded in underground forums frequented by identity thieves".According to the source, .Mac users handed over their p... |
15 August 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned Windows Live Hotmail users that a new phishing scam is in progress, designed to hijack accounts. According to a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team, users have started receiving phishing messages warning of the immediate shutdown of their accounts with the Microsoft email service unless they ... |
12 August 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Although 49% of the companies that took part in a survey conducted by RSA Conference said that their primary security concern was data leakage, such as employee or customer information, and 29% of them were in fact confronted with the problem in 2007, only 11% actually reported the incidents. "Security professionals ... |
2 August 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Spammers radically changed their methods from what they used last year. If, at the end of June 2007, 60% of spammers used images in order to make people swallow the bait, the percentage dropped to 3% at the end of June 2008. On the other hand, after conducting a global study, BitDefender researchers noticed the reviv... |
1 August 2008
10:25 GMT |
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According to security researcher Aviv Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari software applications are vulnerable to URL Spoofing. What this means is that an attacker can exploit said vulnerabilities and conduct a phishing attack on the user. The problem is not a new one, except that Aviv Raff and a handful of other... |
25 July 2008
04:57 GMT |
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The Nigerian scammers seem to be out of fresh ideas to put to use and line their pockets, so they are reviving a classic phishing attempt. They are once again sending out threatening spam messages and asking people to pay large amounts of money if they want to get to stay alive. The only difference is that they are n... |
22 July 2008
09:34 GMT |
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According to research conducted by Internet security company TrendMicro, phishers are resorting to new ways of fooling users. The ever present URL to the phishing site has no longer been seen in numerous messages analyzed by TrendMicro. It would seem that instead the user is provided with a legitimate e-mail address.... |
22 July 2008
08:38 GMT |
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The Trojan in question has been named Limbo 2, and according to the people who came up with it, the best 10 security software solutions on the market today are not capable of detecting it. Acquiring this malware will set you back about $1,300, but for that amount of money you will get a software product that is uniqu... |
21 July 2008
03:50 GMT |
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US citizens are warned that a spam message claiming to originate from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is circulating on the Internet. The users are lured by a "stimulus payment" message into visiting a phishing site and providing the scammer with their private data. There are several security risks associated with... |
18 July 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that a convincing-looking phishing email containing a picture of the .Mac "world" logo, "very much in Apple's style," is circling the web. Users of Apple's web service who've recently moved to MobileMe should take caution when opening and using links provided in suspicious emails.... |
14 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Ireland-based SMEs (short for Small and Medium Enterprises) are experiencing an increase in scamming attempts, as reported by a recently issued survey conducted by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association (ISME). Attackers resort to phishing type attempts, as well as false invoices and international business... |
12 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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According to Chris Mannon, senior threat researcher with FaceTime Security Labs, the latest phishing security threat has been identified as Sysda. Although at this point only Chinese users should be worried about it, FaceTime expects it to jump over to the US, and other parts of the world, in the near future. Sysda ... |
12 July 2008
06:08 GMT |
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People who fall victim to phishing attacks can end up penniless because the attacker will most likely use the information obtained through a phishing site to drain the victim's account dry. Search engine giant Google has been at the forefront of the battle against such scam attempts, warning users that the mess... |
10 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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The DNS flaw refers to the way web page addressing is handled on the Internet, and the one who discovered it by accident was Dan Kaminsky. An attacker can take advantage of this security issue and redirect the user to any site, no matter what address the user is trying to access. It would be a great opportunity for ... |
9 July 2008
07:59 GMT |
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People who use the MSN web messenger can conveniently and easily talk to people millions of miles away, but can just as well become victims of a phishing attempt or receive countless spam messages that lead to malware spreading web pages. That is why Heise Online is advising all MSN users to exercise caution whenever... |
8 July 2008
09:33 GMT |
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It would seem that Google Calendar is plagued by all sorts of problems, the most recent of them being phishing attacks. Google representatives ask users to ignore suspicious messages and click the "Report Phishing" button instead of reading the message, opening links included in the message or downloading any attach... |
1 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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A long time ago, when we first detected a Google AdWords phishing scam, it all looked like a shy attack because nobody could ever think that it would last several months. Even if phishing websites have been shut down, attackers are continuously creating new ones, which simply follow the same line: malicious emails se... |
28 May 2008
03:28 GMT |
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At the beginning of this month, we brought you news about a mail scam that aimed to steal personal information from Yahoo! Mail users. Back then, it was reported that a number of Yahoo! users had received notification emails that literally made them winners in a Yahoo! Lottery contest, in which they had never volunta... |
28 May 2008
02:48 GMT |
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It's no surprise that phishers take over bank clients because this is the most common way to steal financial information, bank account details and other sensitive data. However, phishers use more and more sophisticated techniques which could simply trick their targets and turn them into victims. A few days ago, ... |
27 May 2008
03:49 GMT |
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SoftWin has just launched BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta, the latest attempt of the company supposed to keep users' computers safer than anytime before. The suite contains numerous security tools, starting with anti-virus and anti-spyware and ending with anti-phishing utilities, firewall and anti-spam filt... |
26 May 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Today's phishers have pretty advanced techniques and today's report comes to support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an email account belonging to First National Bank of Bellevue in order to send phishing emails to its customers. As usual, the main goal of the scam was ... |
26 May 2008
03:47 GMT |
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As part of the fight against phishing scams, ING Direct Bank took the decision to offer a free anti-phishing application which should protect consumers of dangerous scams. The application is called Rapport and is developed by Trusteer, "a privately held corporation founded by senior Internet security industry executi... |
21 May 2008
10:04 GMT |
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