Phishers

Today's phishers have fairly advanced technology and today's report will support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an e-mail account belonging to the First National Bank of Bellevue to send phishing e-mail to their customers. As always, the main objective of the fraud was to trick users into revealing their private financial information such as account number an

Of all the internet risks, phishing has been the toughest to thwart because it's often almost impossible for a consumer to tell a phony e-mail from a legitimate one. Just lately I had received two e-mails that come from the bank and the website organization where I have an account. From the first look you wouldn't suspect that it was a fraud. They have a link that they want me to log in. The

Phishers now targets iTunes users for identity theft. First iTunes is target by Phishers for identity theft. Phishers send spam messages to iTunes users telling them that must correct their user account problems. Spam has a link that redirect iTunes users for iTunes billing update page and that phony page asks for information including [...]

Security experts at Trend Micro have warned of a Google AdWords phishing attack designed to steal sensitive information. Victims of the scam receive an email notification informing them that their last AdWords payment has not been successful and asking them to update their payment information. The link displayed in the email body appears to be legitimate, but [...]

I purchased a few things from ebay early last year, but had not been to the site in over 6 months. Now that I have a concierge to receive packages, I made a pact to myself to buy more things...

Coordinated attack One of the most sensitive science and technology labs in the US has been hacked as part of what it called “a sophisticated cyber attack that now appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country.”… Read more…

Vulture-like vocalizing among the online criminal classesWells Fargo & Co. may have a new problem following its widespread computer crash earlier this week: online scammers.Over the past 24 hours, there has been a growing amount of chatter in the underground criminal community about ways to take advantage of the outage, according to Joel Helgeson, an independent computer security consultant in St. Paul, Minn."They've talked about spooling up their engines and networks to take full advantage of this," said Helgeson, who monitors criminal discussion forums as part of his security practice. "Everybody is sitting there waiting for a bank to screw up. It's like following behind an armored car, waiting for them to make a big mistake, and Wells Fargo just made a big one."Many Wells Fargo banking operations, including online and ATM services, were knocked offline Sunday in an outage that continued to affect users Tuesday.Link to complete story: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Spamhaus gives black mark to Nic.at Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has taken the unusual step of putting an entry for Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at on its Spamhaus Block List (SBL).… Read more…

La noticia ya es conocida. Más de 30 personas, incluyendo el supuesto agresor, murieron el lunes en un tiroteo en un campus universitario de los Estados Unidos.Y el triste in suceso acaecido en la Universidad Tecnológica de Virginia (Virginia Tech), ya está siendo explotado por inescrupulosos delincuentes informáticos, algo que ya no debería asombrarnos, aunque nunca dejaremos de aborrecer.A las pocas horas de la tragedia, ya se divulgaba por Internet algún mensaje refiriéndose a un supuesto video inédito del cruento tiroteo.Un ejemplo concreto, un spam en portugués, muestra un enlace a un falso video, que al descargarse, instala en nuestro PC un troyano de la familia de los "Banload", el que a su vez descarga una variante de Win32/Spy.Banker, malware que roba información del usuario relacionada con sus cuentas bancarias.La página HTML que muestra el enlace, contiene el siguiente texto:Aguarde... O video está sendo carregado...Para visualizar o video, aguarde carregare cliq

(seguridadenlared.org) Desde primera horas de la mañana del domingo se han detectado varias páginas web fraudulentas que suplantan la imagen de las entidades financieras: La Caixa y Banesto. Este tipo de web solo tiene un propósito; el robo de claves bancarias y están preparadas para que el lunes algún cliente caiga en la trampa. Ambas entidades bancarias estas alertadas y están realizando los tramites para el cierre inmediato de estas web fraudulentas que suplanta la imagen de la entidad. No se descarta que aparezcan nuevos ataques de suplantación de imágenes que afecte a otras entidades bancarias. Este tipo de intento de robo de claves bancarias se producen tras la recepción de un correo electrónico que “simula” ser enviado por la entidad bancaria, por supuesto este correo nunca fue enviando por su entidad, el contenido de estos correos trampa son cualquier tipo de excusa para engañar al cliente, en ambos detectados son una notificación por motivos de seguridad don

Aggressive marketing of online services and a sharp growth in internet connections have seen the internet gaining popularity as a banking channel. But, while banks are extremely bullish about the development of this channel, they are discovering the challenge of protecting gullible customers from online fraudsters. Read more…

If you have an e-mail account, chances are you’re used to seeing messages that purport to come from PayPal but which are actually spam from attackers trying to get you to click on a link to a malicious Web site and give up your password or other sensitive information. Phishing attacks are commonplace. [...]

A higher than expected percentage of internet users are falling victim to phishing scams, US academics claimed today. Researchers at Indiana University’s School of Informatics said that phishers targeting US adults could be netting responses from as much as 14 per cent of the targeted users per attack. The university’s study simulated phishing tactics used to elicit [...]