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| 419 Death Scam Makes a Comeback |  | 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 now asking for less ($9,000 not $40,000) and they are offering more time to gather that amount of money (10 days not 96 hours) ... [read more >>] | | 22 July 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No URLs in Recent Phishing Attempts |  | 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.
A run of the mill phishing attempt involves the user receiving a spam message that directs that user to a phish ... [read more >>] | | 22 July 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Trojan Guaranteed to Bypass Detection |  | 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 unique, customized to your personal requirements, and guaranteed to run under the radar of most security solutions.
... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishing Attack Uses IRS as a Front |  | 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 handing out this kind of information, such as ID theft, or having your bank account bled dry.
Raphel ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| .Mac Phishing Email Doing the Rounds |  | 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 open ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishing Attempts on Irish Companies Increase |  | 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 directories.
"In the past couple of weeks, numerous companies have received invoices and ‘update’ request ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2008, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FaceTime Warns about Latest Sysda Phishing Threat |  | 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 is a Trojan that attempts to steal the passwords used by people when logging into various Chinese web pages.
Ch ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2008, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Wages War against Phishing Attacks |  | 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 message may have malicious intent. The latest messages to come under close scrutiny are those that come, or claiming to come from ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DNS Flaw Finally Fixed |  | 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 someone with malicious intent to set up a fake site and get your private data (phishing). The worst thing is that the flaw af ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 07:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MSN Flooded with Spam and Phishing Attempts |  | 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 exer ... [read more >>] | | 08 July 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Calendar Targeted by Phishing Attacks |  | 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 attachments.
... [read more >>] | | 01 July 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Even More Google AdWords Phishing Scams |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Tries to Bring "Lottery" Spammers to Court |  | 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! Lotter ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sophisticated Phishing Scam Hunting ANZ Bank Clients |  | 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, such an attack took place in Australia where clients of ANZ Bank were targeted by an advanced phishing scam based o ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Legitimate Bank Email Used in Phishing Scam |  | 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 ma ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ING Direct Bank Offers Free Security Application |  | 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 indu ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Phished for the First Time in History |  | Phishing scams have a long history on the web so there's no surprise that new attacks have been detected by security companies in the world. But what's really important is that Apple, the Cupertino-based company which has never been targeted by such scams, has recently turned into phishers’ main objective. Cited by ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Donors May Get Themselves Hacked, US-CERT Warns |  | Following the recent disasters in Burma and China, companies and charities are continuously asking for donations, which is quite a good thing considering the recorded number of victims. However, US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) warned that more and more phishers rely on these tragedies and attempt to get money from donors using traditional scams.
Just like previous attacks, phishers send spam messages ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| International Crime Ring Busted by US and Romanian Police |  | The US and the Romanian authorities charged a total number of 38 persons, more than a half based in Romania, all of them being suspected of running an advanced scheme affecting thousands of people from all over the world. The international crime ring was mostly based on phishing attacks but according to security company Sophos, the members also sent SMS spam to mobile phones. "We're confirming that you've signed up ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PayPal Phishing Scam Explained by Yahoo |  | Phishing scams occur every once in a while and users have started to get used to them; nevertheless, there are some cases when such an attack may prove to be pretty dangerous. The most recently reported PayPal phishing scam attempts to steal PayPal credentials by using the same traditional method: an email message that informs users that their account information must be updated, the provided link redirecting them to a fake websi ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Phishing Scams Available on the Web |  | Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently warned the general public about a new scheme by which scammers intended to take the users' IRS fund che ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 07:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Warns about Myanmar Support Phishing Scams |  | Last week, we brought you reports about the terrible disaster that had hit Myanmar the weekend before. We also followed Google's actions towards helping the victims of Myanmar. As most of you already know, Google has put in a considerable effort to make ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google AdWords Scam Phishers Tracked Down |  | We reported about this Google AdWords phishing scam a long time ago, but it seems like the attackers are still struggling to find new victims since the message still reaches users' inboxes. However, new information was revealed yesterday as Loucif Kharouni of Trend Micro got one of these emails asking for the AdWords login credentials. What's interesting is that according to the threat analyst, the ones behind the attac ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Talks about Phishing |  | Phishing attacks are extremely dangerous because they usually target financial details or other private information belonging to ordinary users. Unfortunately, the last few months came with a huge amount of phishing scams and the avalanche of attacks doesn't seem to look for an end anytime soon. Because of that, security companies around the world assault users with all kinds of advice, all of them with the same purpose: hel ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phone Phishing Scam Steals Money from Your Pocket |  | We've seen a lot of phishing scams in the recent few weeks and it seems like this avalanche of attacks is not even close to its end. The NSW Fraud Squad officers today warned the Sydney residents that a phone phishing scam attempts to lure them into disclosing private information such as financial details and bank accounts. An automated phone call received by lots of residents asks them to press a certain phone button in ord ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 09:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 1Password 2.6.1 Enhances Anti-Phishing Safeguard |  | Agile Web Solutions has updated its password manager for Mac OS X, 1Password, to version 2.6.1. This is a major update to Agile Web's software, as it contains new features and some 60 improvements. A user license for 1Password costs $34.95 to buy. Owners of ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishers Add New Techniques to Their Arsenal |  | How does a phishing scam work? The attacker, a.k.a. the phisher, creates a copy of a legitimate website and sends emails to certain victims asking them to visit the page. In comparison with the genuine website, the fake one actually requires private information such as credit card details or financial data that would allow phishers to steal money. However, according to recent reports, this is only an old phishing scam as today� ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Beijing Olympics Hackers Rely on Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities |  | It's well known the fact that the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be one of the busiest times of the year for hackers because most of them will launch attacks related to the event in order to find new victims. In fact, it seems like the attacks have already been launched as NetworkWorld ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Facebook's Recommended Browsers: Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox |  | Phishing scams and Facebook are two of the most popular web-related things these days although they have pretty different meanings and purposes. Phishing scams are extremely dangerous attacks, usually launched via email addresses, which attempt to steal users' private information through a fake website which looks similar to a legitimate one. On the other hand, Facebook is one of the most known services on the web, being a s ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishers Look For New Victims in Panama |  | Phishers are continuously seeking for new victims so although it seems like they’ve stopped their malicious activities, they're actually launching them in a different corner of the world. What seems to be one of their latest targets is Panama, a country which has been often avoided by phishing scams. According to Dmitry of Kaspersky Lab, a new phishing attack aiming to steal info from Panama users has been spotted on the web ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Users Install Antiviruses but Forget about Anti-Spyware |  | A study published by APACS, a UK payment association, reveals what was already known by all of us: the number of the phishing attacks is continuously increasing. According to a report published by the mentioned association, there were no less than 10,235 reported phishing scams in the first quarter of 2008, compared to only 3,394 attempts in the same period of 2007. This means that the number of phishing attacks has almost triple ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Rolls Out Anti-Phishing Filter |  | Since Google provides access to a huge number of websites, powerful security measures are obviously "a must," so every once in a while, the Mountain View-based company implements a new function or improves an older one. Today, Ionut Alex Chitu informs that Google now provides phishing warning, which means the user who searches for a certain query and then clicks on a phishing website included in Google's results, w ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| After MasterCard, Visa Gets Scammed Too |  | Following last week's report that MasterCard owners had been targeted by a phishing scheme attempting to steal their private financial details, it was only a matter of time until Visa's consumers joined the club. Security company Sophos today reports that a new phishing scam was detected, this time targeting Visa owners. Similar to other attacks in the past, the malicious email arriving in the Visa users' inboxes a ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Romania - European Leader When It Comes To Phishing |  | Symantec has just published the Internet Security Threat Report XIII which provides a closer analysis of the most important threats occurred between July 1 and December 31, 2007. What's really interesting is the phishing section in which the security company talks about the countries hosting phishing websites, the United States being the clear leader with no less than 66 percent of the total number of phishing pages. China c ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sued? Antivirus Update Required! |  | A new and pretty dangerous phishing attack was launched a few days ago, targeting the CEOs of online companies. According to Cyveillance's official blog, the CEO of the company, Panos Anastassiadis, received a suspicious email, apparently a subpoena, which informed him that he had been sued, the message including a link supposed to allow the receiver to download court documents.
What's interesting is that, in compar ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nigerian Phishers Arrested |  | Phishing schemes are quite popular these days because more and more people around the world think that tricking others into disclosing their private financial details and stealing their money is quite a simple method to earn some extra cash. But what they don't know is that once they get caught, they may be forced to spend a few years in prison, next to criminals. That sounds encouraging, doesn't it?
This is exactly ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MasterCard Holders under Phishing Attack |  | MasterCard holders around the world should be really proud of their card because this tiny thing lets you buy all sorts of products with a single click straight from your Internet-connected computer. And what's more important is that it provides remarkable security, especially due to the SecureCode technology implemented by the parent company. However, it seems like phishers out there want to adapt their techniques to the la ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money |  | We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters. And if the emails’ subject concerns AdWords, Google’s money machine, the message is bound to be important and has to be read as soon as possible. Some Internet users have received recently a "Google" notification asking them to "update their billing info ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Safari Isn't Safe, Says PayPal |  | Well, "the world's best browser" seemingly doesn't fit the "safe" profile, according to PayPal, who has recently put up a list o ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Betting Online, Phishers Training Ground |  | Phishing is really taking proportions in the cyber crime universe. After initially targeting only online auction sites and online banks, the trend expands to ‘working’ on virtual casinos. Security company Symantec has discovered the first examples and deepened its research on the matter, after managing to track back a large number of attacks on small countries to assaults on online casinos.
Punters on such sites make much better targets ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Another Phishing Scam Unveiled by McAfee |  | The Internet really needs a watchdog because the amount of malware heading our way, and by that I mean the inexperienced public, there's no way we could fend all of the attacks on our own, with just some anti-virus, be it upgraded on a regular basis. McAfee and the other security software vendors are going that extra mile and are warning users of most, if not all, of the dangers that lurk in the Internet shadows.
Phishing is one o ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Scheme – Voice Phishing |  | Phishing is one of the most certain means of acquiring some personal information period. Either the victim doesn’t know he/she is visiting a fake secure site or is providing the information via email to somebody asking for it while posing as an official doesn’t really matter to the phishers. All that matters is to get the job done, so they have stepped up their game and went ahead to attempt pulling off the same scheme via voice.
Sophos ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Almost Flawless DNS Scams |  | Researchers from Google and Georgia Tech have discovered a mind troubling loophole in the domain name system that is the Mecca of all phishing scammers. There’s no way to detect such a scam unless you know what you’re looking for, and know it well. It’s a piece of code that propagates just the way others do, via spam and email, but the results it gets to can make a simple hijacking of your computer’s functions look like a dandeli ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 12:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Agile Web Updates 1Password for iPhone |  | Agile Web Solutions, the guys responsible for the multiple-award-winning password manager, called 1Password, have recently introduced the nifty app to iPhones as well. The 1Password 2.5.1. password assistant for iPhone is free to registered users and it improves 1Password for iPhone, also adding support for AutoFill in Mobile Safari.
Using 1Password, Mac and iPhone users can easil ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Biggest-ever Spanish Probe into Internet Fraud |  | Internet crime is very alluring because it is fairly easy to commit and it doesn’t take the mastermind planning required to rob a bank. It’s mostly a routine job of going through credit card numbers and transacting from others’ accounts into their favor or promising items that you don’t have and then disappearing into the blue with the money. It’s not really that easy, but it’s got no kicks to it other than the law kicking your b ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TROJ_BANKER.MQH Wants Your Money |  | And... it's here! What seems to be the first Trojan targeting your bank account information is finally here! TROJ_BANKER.MQH comes with a medium damage potential, which underlines the Trojan's capability to reach its goals, in our case – stealing the bank account info. According to security vendor Trend Micro, the Trojan affects most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003, so most people out the ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Facebook Also Likes Phishing |  | It was only a matter of time, but I can't really find a reason for stealing somebody's Facebook login credentials since the service is free for all. Maybe spamming or infecting people's computer is enough to convince attackers to launch phishing schemes on the web... However, a phishing scheme has already been identified these days, when a Chinese domain hosted a Facebook-like website asking for users' login c ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Simple Tips for a Safe Christmas |  | Security has always been one of the top concerns for us no matter if we’re talking about viruses, malware, Trojan horses, credit card fraud or hack attacks. They’re all dangerous and capable of causing important damages or financial losses, so it’s extremely important to apply the most powerful security measures as soon as possible. Christmas is not only that time of the year when you finally get the chance to spend some time wi ... [read more >>] | | 24 December 2007, 12:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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