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Tag: phishing

  • VB announces latest VBSpam certification results

    Two products achieve top level VBSpam Platinum award. Virus Bulletin has announced the results of its second comparative review of anti-spam products, revealing two top-level awards. Of the nine products tested, two achieved VBSpam Platinum certification awards, while one VBSpam Gold award and two silver-level awards were handed out. VB’s Anti-spam Test Director Martijn Grooten…

  • DKIM usage shows significant growth

    US banks urged to use authentication method In a report on its website , Internet giant Cisco states it has been seeing almost 700,000 non-spam messages that contain valid DKIM signatures per week – a number that has almost tripled since a year ago. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is an authentication method where the sending…

  • Digital attacks encroach on real world

    Car park flyers trick victims to malicious site. The online arena of scams and phishing took a worrying step into the real world last week, as researchers heard of a scam starting in a US car park and leading to an online infectious website. The flyers, placed on windscreens in a North Dakota parking lot,…

  • MS report finds phishing revenues overhyped

    Huge earnings may be myth, say researchers. A report from Microsoft analysing the potential income of phishers claims that the amounts taken from duped victims of online scams may not be as high as numerous recent surveys have estimated. A duo of researchers looked into various aspects of the phishing economy, and found that figures…

  • CastleCops closes down

    Security community project comes to an end. Well-known volunteer group CastleCops , which ran campaigns to identify and bring down spamming and phishing operations for over five successful years, has been quietly shut down. The website, formerly hosting a range of resources, forums and reporting systems and bookmarked by many security watchers, now carries only…

  • Twitter hit by phishing and hacks

    Popular micro-blog site latest target of link spammers. The latest social networking craze, micro-blogging service Twitter , has joined the likes of MySpace and Facebook in being exploited by phishers, spammers and hackers in a spate of incidents over the past few days. A slick phishing campaign led to the hijacking of numerous user accounts…

  • Sarkozy bank account raided by cybercrooks

    Hackers steal from French president – phish suspected. French president Nicolas Sarkozy has had his funds stolen from his bank account, apparently after a phishing email tricked him into handing over access codes, according to reports. The raid only lifted ‘small amounts’ from the account, and due to the widespread fame Sarkozy has picked up…

  • Ham disguised as spam

    Webshop makes mass-mailing look like phishing scam. An email addressed to ‘Dear customer’, in which a user is asked to check their account details, using a link that does not lead to the sender’s domain: one would hope that modern web users would not be taken in for a second by such an obvious phishing…

  • Researchers urge anti-phishing companies to share data

    Estimate over $300 million lost annually because data is not shared. Researchers have revealed malicious websites are often active for longer than they ought to be due to a lack of communication and cooperation between security vendors. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked into data sharing among companies that are hired by banks…

  • Google shows off in-house browser beta

    Open-source ‘Chrome’ promises security as well as efficiency. Ever-expanding web giant Google has released an early version of its own browser, developed in house but under open-source principles, with a number of built-in security systems and techniques supplementing new ideas for speed and efficiency. The browser, dubbed ‘ Chrome ‘, will include alerts from Google…