Tag: phishing
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Outlook spam phishes for SMTP credentials
Login details would give spammers access to legitimate mail servers. A phishing scam has been identified that targets users of Microsoft Outlook and tries to obtain SMTP login credentials. Many internet users send email using their ISP’s mail server which means that, upon setting up their email client, they need to enter the latter’s SMTP…
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Canada new hotbed for cybercriminal activity
Country’s IP addresses less likely to be scrutinized. Security firm Websense has reported a significant increase in cybercrime originating in Canada. Hitherto, Canada and malicious online activity were mainly linked through vast amounts of ‘Canadian pharmacy’ spam sent out to inboxes all over the world. However, malicious activity in the country – including the hosting…
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Scammers take advantage of Epsilon data breach
Trojan hidden as security tool for affected customers. Scammers are currently taking advantage of the data breach that affected email security provider Epsilon recently, by creating a copy of Epsilon ‘s website and claiming that people can download a ‘security tool’ that tells them whether they have been affected. While far from the first time…
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Major email service provider suffers data breach
Financial institutions among affected customers. Email service provider Epsilon , which carries out email marketing for many major companies, has admitted it has fallen victim to a targeted attack where hackers obtained some customer data. In a press release on its website, the Dallas, TX, based company plays down the attack, saying it affected approximately…
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Dutch most protected Europeans online
Bulgarians most likely to have become infected; financial losses most prevalent among Latvians. For the occasion of Safer Internet Day on 8 February, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, published a report providing various statistics on Internet security. One of the report’s findings was that the use of IT security software (e.g. anti-virus software or a…
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Phishing for different markets
Scam emails trying to steal CO 2 emission credits and World-of-Warcraft accounts. Two unrelated phishing campaigns seen doing the rounds recently show that it’s not just real money that criminals are trying to steal via email scams. The first campaign targets EU-based companies and attempts to gain access to accounts with the EU Emission Trading…
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Dutch banks report huge increase in online fraud
Users warned against phishing and becoming money mules. Figures on online crime released by the association of Dutch banks (NVB) show a significant rise in indicents of online banking that led to damages. During 2009, there were 154 such indicents with total damages amounting to 1.9 million euros – an average of over 12,000 euros…
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Project Honey Pot ‘celebrates’ billionth spam message
Facebook about to become most phished organization. Few people would celebrate receiving a billion spam messages, but those at Project Honey Pot must have been a little proud when their billionth message arrived last week. After all, the purpose of the project is to collect as many spam messages as possible and use these to…
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Webmail data leak hype deflated
Rumoured phishing explosion grabs headlines, reality much more mundane. This week has seen some major news organisations picking up on the story of tens of thousands of sets of webmail access data appearing online, with rumours of a major and highly effective phishing campaign – possibly targeting children – rife across the web. As the…