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  • Net threats cost US $8.5 billion in two years

    Study measures scale of scamming and other web worries. US consumer watchdog body Consumer Reports have released their annual ‘State of the Net’ study, finding a noticeable decline in malware and spam issues, but still significant amounts of money lost to malware and phishing, estimated at $8.5 billion over a two-year period. The survey covered…

  • Spam and ID theft attacked from all sides

    EU body issues warning, ICANN, Japan and Yahoo! take on spammers and phishers. Last week a series of major institutions took action highlighting the threat of spam and phishing, with a serious warning released by European Union web security body ENISA and more concrete actions taken by web management body ICANN, the Japanese government and…

  • Phishing on rise, but anti-phishers fighting back

    As UK banking body reports major increase in phishes, PayPal unveils blocking strategy. A report from the UK payments industry association APACS has shown a dramatic increase in phishing incidents, with the number of reports for Q1 of 2008 up 200% on the same period last year. Meanwhile major phishing target PayPal , the online…

  • Users of online banking ‘should have adequate protection’

    New UK banking code says customers who keep their PCs secure will not be responsible for losses due to online theft. A new banking code launched earlier this week by the British’ Bankers Association (BBA) states that customers who ‘use up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a personal firewall’ cannot be held liable for losses…

  • Vish implanted in phishing warning

    Doctored bank alert includes phony phone number. A spammed-out email has been spotted posing as a phishing warning from US credit union Kessler Federal , with some very sensible advice for customers including genuine contact details for reporting phishing attempts and assertions that no requests for login details will ever be sent by email. In…

  • Meta-phishing

    Phishing warning contains link to… phishing site. The anti-malware industry can congratulate itself for there being an increasing awareness among users about phishing. Users are becoming increasingly phish-savvy and many now know that they should be wary of clicking on links in emails that appear to come from their bank – especially if they are…

  • Phishers phishing phishers’ phishes

    Scam software secretly sending stolen data to creators. Phishing researchers have uncovered code buried in phishing software kits, sold by developers to less technically aware phishing gangs, which secretly forwards any valuable data gathered to its creators. The developers of much of the malware used in phishing were thought to mostly profit from sales of…

  • Complex attack targets Better Business Bureau

    Sophisticated scam uses personalised mails, real site redirects. A highly sophisticated email phishing scam is using a redirection flaw in the website of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to lead victims to install spyware. The emails making contact with potential victims are highly targeted, with personalised information and links to the genuine BBB site to…

  • 419 scammers plead guilty in US

    African trio admit attempts to defraud via spam. Three men, two from Nigeria and a third from Senegal, entered guilty pleas in a Brooklyn, New York, courtroom last week after being deported from the Netherlands to face trial for running a series of ‘419’ spam scams. Operating in the usual manner for such scams, the…

  • US agencies report vishing, extortion, danger of hacking

    FBI name used in email attacks, CIA warns of power supply hacks. US security and law enforcement agencies were more than usually active in the computer security world last week, with the FBI alerting on increases in voice phishing attempts and a spam campaign posing as mails from the agency itself, while a CIA representative…