Published in July 30th, 2008
UK payments body Apacs is urging online banking customers to remain extra vigilant following a 180 per cent surge in phishing emails in the past year.
Apacs, said there were 20,682 “phishing” frauds involving banks and building societies reported in the first six months of the year, against 7,224 a year earlier.
Communications Director Sandra Quinn said: [...]
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Published in June 18th, 2008
Microsoft has hired Paul Laudanski, the man behind the anti-phishing Castlecops.com Web site, to help with the software company’s phishing and spam investigations. He will be working for the Live Consumer Services group focusing on phishing, spam and general service abuse.
Laudanski, a former volunteer firefighter, announced the move on Castlecops.com last week, saying that he’s [...]
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Published in June 9th, 2008
Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two indictments alleging they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, U.S. and Romanian authorities announced Monday.
The alleged ring aimed to bilk thousands of unwitting consumers and hundreds of financial institutions, according to indictments unsealed in Los [...]
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Published in May 28th, 2008
Phishers are now using the iTunes Store as a way to get personal information from iTunes customers, using emails similar to those that purport to be from banks or auction sites.
The Computerworld report says that users began receiving spam email messages on Monday telling them that they must correct a problem with their iTunes account; [...]
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Published in May 15th, 2008
The Bush administration’s economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.
The phishing messages claim that the fastest way to receive one’s economic stimulus tax rebate is through direct [...]
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Published in April 17th, 2008
The SANS Internet Storm Center on Monday warned that CEOs of some companies are being targeted with a phishing attack involving fake federal subpoenas sent via e-mail.
This type of targeted e-mail attack, called “spear-phishing,” is a variation on the more common “phishing” attack. Both attacks use fake e-mail messages to try to lure victims to [...]
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Published in April 15th, 2008
PayPal is stepping up its battle against phishing with new technology and by collaborating with others in the industry.
Michael Barrett, Chief Information Security Officer at PayPal, says phishing is not an unsolvable problem. He and colleague Dan Levy have written a white paper called “A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing” that was published on Thursday [...]
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Published in January 15th, 2008
McAfee researchers are warning of a new MySpace phishing campaign in which users receive “friend” requests that attempt to infect them with assorted malware disguised as a Microsoft update.
The Trojan, known as TFactory, is a well-known piece of code that has been used by criminals for more than a year, PC World reported Saturday. The [...]
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Published in November 8th, 2007
Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams, after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.
In a note to customers, Salesforce said that online criminals have been sending customers fake invoices and, starting just a few days ago, viruses and key logging software. [...]
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