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Tag: phishing

  • Help for victims of e-crime

    Cybercrime support website launched. A website dedicated to helping victims of online crime and other incidents has been launched in the UK. The site, www.e-victims.org , aims to provide information and support for those who have been victims of online crime. Initially the site offers information about online shopping – providing details of consumer rights…

  • Phishing danger increases as Storm botnet is hired out

    Smart new trojan and Storm diversification add to online banking risk. The dangers of banking online grew significantly in past weeks, as portions of the ever-expanding Storm botnet were hired out to run phishing campaigns and a sophisticated new trojan was discovered, capable of targeting 400 different online banking systems around the world. With the…

  • $3.2 billion lost in phishing attacks in 2007

    Gartner survey reveals US losses to phishing gangs. Analyst firm Gartner has estimated that $3.2 billion was lost by 3.6 million US computer users in phishing attacks over the 12 months ending in August 2007. Gartner arrived at the figures after surveying more than 4,500 US adult computer users. The survey found that, of those…

  • One in four consider online banking unsafe

    Virus Bulletin finds that one in four users consider online banking to be unsafe, but manage their accounts online regardless, while 50% of users consider online banking to be risk free. In a survey of more than 370 visitors to www.virusbtn.com – many of whom are security professionals – a mere 23% of users said…

  • Phished Salesforce.com data used for phishing attacks

    Password leak leads to major CRM customer data haul. A security breach at customer relationship management (CRM) firm Salesforce.com has led to a large-scale leak of confidential user data, which has been put to use for targeted phishing attack posing as Salesforce invoices. Salesforce offer a software-as-service platform for CRM, covering sales and marketing information…

  • Phishing trojan targets Mac OSX

    DNS hijack disguised as codec threatens Apple systems. A new trojan affecting Apple ‘s Mac OSX operating system – a relative rarity in the malware world – has been seen in the wild. The trojan, thought to belong to the highly prevalent Zlob (aka Puper) family, is being served by numerous fake codec sites, linked…

  • Supermarket sweep

    Phishers almost get away with $10m scam. Court documents have revealed that phishers nearly managed a whopping $10 million supermarket (bank account) sweep earlier this year. Supervalu Inc. , one of the largest grocery retail chains in the US, fell for a simple scam in which scammers sent the company emails purporting to be from…

  • Bulletproof hosting firm claims legitimacy

    Crime-laden Russian service threatens to sue detractors. A notorious Russian firm offering ‘bulletproof hosting’ – website hosting services with a guarantee that sites will not be taken down if found to be serving up illegal content, spam, malware, phishing sites etc. – has claimed in a media interview that its services are entirely genuine and…

  • Phil makes anti-phishing education child’s play

    Researchers create game to raise awareness. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created an interactive game designed to teach players how to identify phishing URLs and how to be aware of phishing dangers and fraudulent websites when navigating the Internet. The phishy game features, appropriately enough, a fish called Phil, who lives in ‘Interweb Bay’…

  • APWG and FTC combine to fight ID fraud

    Agencies join forces to release safety guidance documents. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have pooled their resources and experience of combating identity theft and fraud, releasing two guidance documents with advice on avoiding the risk of phishing and ID crime. Released as part of a country-wide campaign currently…