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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 184 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: online casinos easy bet phishers comments Discuss  
We are currently in the process of compiling the upcoming Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. I am putting together the phishing sections for the Asia-Pacific and Europe, Africa, and Middle East ISTRs. One of the things that we've noticed is that there are several instances of very small countries hosting high numbers of phishing Web sites. Obviously this raised the question of why this would be. After we'd gone through related data—bot-infected computers, spam zombies, phishing hosts, etc.—we could read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 183 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: phishers clean online casinos comments Discuss  
Poker faced fraudEmail fraudsters are increasingly targeting customers of online casinos with phishing attacks. A wave of assaults against punters betting in casinos run from Antigua and the Dutch Antilles shows that attackers are extending their range beyond targets such as online banks and eBay.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 163 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: security researchers hook phishers comments Discuss  
Sniffing out bad sushiSecurity researchers are cooking up tactics for beating phishing fraudsters at their own game.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 141 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: phishers offer credit card discounts prospective marks comments Discuss  
In-SecureCodePhishing fraudsters are using promises of financial discounts to trick unwary users into handing over their credit card details.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 108 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: phishers scamming irs rebates comments Discuss  
Scammers want your IRS refund checks and have devised at least one phishing scheme to get it, according to the FBI. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 100 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: phishers aim scam apples itunes comments Discuss  
Phishers have targeted users of Apple's iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 65 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: hsbc scripting flaws play hands phishers comments Discuss  
XSS calamitySeveral HSBC websites are subject to scripting flaws that create a possible mechanism for crooks to create more convincing phishing scams.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 44 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: study site redirects abundant aid phishers comments Discuss  
An examination of nearly 2.5 million Web pages at some of the Internet's most popular and trusted sites turned up at least 128,000 links that could be manipulated by fraudsters and virus writers to make online scams more believable, a study released this month found. Scammers and phishers are taking advantage of commonly used coding used in "redirects" to divert traffic from reputable Web site to sites that could harbor malicious software or phishing schemes....Please click on the title to continue reading read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 28 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn phishing kits widely compromised steal phishers comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:11:59 -0500 (CDT)http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209900688By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekJuly 31, 2008 Would-be phishers can buy, or obtain for free, phishing kits, which include the files necessary to duplicate a targeted Web site and scripts to steal information submitted by phishing victims. They're widely available online, but they're also untrustworthy.In January, Netcraft security r read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 23 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: study site redirects abundant aid phishers comments Discuss  
An examination of nearly 2.5 million Web pages at some of the Internet's most popular and trusted sites turned up at least 128,000 links that could be manipulated by fraudsters and virus writers to make online scams more believable, a study released this month found. Scammers and phishers are taking advantage of commonly used coding used in "redirects" to divert traffic from reputable Web site to sites that could harbor malicious software or phishing schemes....Please click on the title to continue reading read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 22 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: crimeware grifters scamming naive phishers comments Discuss  
Dishonour among thievesPhishing exploitation kits can be picked up for free on the internet but these packages are regularly backdoored, according to a new study.… read more »
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