Hi-tech tools fuel phishing boom
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Reports suggest phishing gangs are turning to automatic tools to mount more attacks than ever.
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Multibillion-dollar security initiatives have given rise to a new industry seemingly overnight. A News.com special report.
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SAN FRANCISCO - In snooping on a reporter to pinpoint internal news leaks, Hewlett-Packard used high-tech tools common to spammers, phishers, retailers, suspicious employers and investigators. Those tools, including phishing-style e-mail and tracing software, underscore the growing use of electronic surveillance to monitor consumers' every digital move, computer-security experts say.
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Symantec Corp. is fishing for dollars with a new service designed to help companies combat the ongoing epidemic of online identity theft, or "phishing," scams.
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Security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross-site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren&#39;t as popular as they used to be.According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors&#160;spam and phishing&#160;e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending to be from eBay or its payment subsidiary PayPal has dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September.&quot;That&#39;s an impressive turnaround by anyone&#39;s standards,&quot; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a prepared statement.Cluley attributes this drop in part to&#160;online initiatives&#160;by eBay and PayPal to educate their customers about phishing scams, and to PayPal&#39;s launch earlier this year of an&#160;authentication keyfob&#160;that creates a dynamic password for customers concerned with fraud.Sophos says the amount of phishing attacks circulating have stayed relatively consistent over the past year, but now phishers are using different tactics to try and fool recipients. Phishers are beginning to diversify by spoofing small credit unions, other online retailers, and overseas companies, he says.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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The online cons known as &quot;phishing&quot; have cost US consumers $500 million, according to a study released Wednesday. In addition, the study found that three-quarters of wired Americans have noticed an increase
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'Alarming' rise in vishing Fraudsters are turning to VoIP systems to craft more convincing phishing attacks. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) warned last week of an "alarming" rise in the volume of so-called vishing attacks targeting US financial institutions and consumers.â¦
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Spammers have become enthusiastic adopters of technology designed to spot and stop them.
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LAS VEGAS  - The hot new technology behind slick Web pages has suddenly become the hot new tool for cybercriminals. The technology, Ajax coding and Web tools, enables popular websites such as Google Maps and MySpace.com to come alive.
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Browser flaw may leave you vulnerable to phishing attacks.
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Crime-fighting "tinkerers" are figuring out how to get all the inside dope about you from your supposedly trusted gadget
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Trying to authenticate documents or uncover forgeries is an increasingly technical pursuit.
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A tool that could help in the battle against spam and phishing attacks receives industry approval.
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Do-it-yourself phishing kits are being made available for download free of charge from the internet, security watchers have warned.
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group, in its most recent report, said that online scam artists are turning to new tactics to try to trick Web surfers into divulging financial information.
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Phishing scams, already one of the main nemesis on the Net, have apparently just become even more sneaky -- and ingenious. Now, it appears phishing authors are borrowing some time-tested tactics