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 [...]
One of the most important things about being successful on eBay is to take active steps to safeguard your eBay password (also PayPal), not just in the early days but for as long as you remain a member of one or other site.That said, it isn’t just through emails your passwords may be picked up and used by fraudsters. Some people use passwords that are amazingly easy for scamsters to guess, such as a first name followed by year of birth (avril1950, for example) or the city from which they run the business (available for all to see inside almost any eBay listing).More often though the blame lies fairly and squarely with the person staring back at you from the bathroom mirror! Case in point: one of our own subscribers once asked me my eBay User ID to see how I listed items similar to those h
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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.”…
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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).…
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(if you have not read the description of what phishing is you may see it here).Helping Protect Others from PhishersBy reporting phishing to both volunteer and industry groups, such as PhishTank, you can help to protect others from phishers.Other anti-phishing methods have been developed, and have been included in web browsers, toolbars, and as part of web page login procedures. A few examples are as follows:Since phishing is based on the phisher pretending to be someone or someone or something else, one can prevent it if one can recognize whether a site is reliable or not. There are toolbars available that display which site one is really on.Firefox allows you to type in "petname extensions" and make your own labels for websites that you visit. Using this function, you will be able to recognize if you are on the right site or not, when you go back there later. If the site is false, the software will either warn you, or block the site. (You can download Firefox for free with the link at
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.
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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 [...]
