'Phishing' on the Rise, But Don't Take the Bait
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Jan Boldt can hardly believe the number of fake e-mail warnings she receives almost daily from crooks impersonating the security divisions at eBay, AOL, PayPal and other businesses. She usually deletes them without even looking.
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed
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New features designed to alert users if the site they are visiting is legitimate or a phishing site.
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The number of Web sites used to steal private account information from online consumers surged in October, as banks and other financial institutions continued to struggle against Internet &quot;phishing&quot; schemes.
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Online phishing schemes increased significantly in October as financial institutions struggled to combat attempts to steal private account information from online consumers, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).
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Hi-tech fraudsters have developed a new way of tricking customers who go online to do their banking, analysts warned yesterday. A &quot;Trojan horse&quot; programme insinuates itself into a user&#39;s computer via an email
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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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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Domains of several new phishing sites are cropping up with known Storm worm domains. F-Secure researchers think phishers are leasing parts of the larger botnet.
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Tool that identifies sites pretending to be connected to banks, eBay and more could help leave "phishing" scammers dead in the water.
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Most phishing attempts come from about 1,000 compromised "zombie" computers owned by broadband customers, and the phishing attacks are likely generated by less than five phishing operations, according to a survey by CipherTrust Inc.
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Security experts warn of banner ads with a bad attitude--and a link to malicious code. Also: Phishers, be gone.
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Paypal has long held the inauspicious title of the Web's most frequently spoofed phishing target, but it says it is now seeing some success in stemming the tide with user education programs and pertnership with large ISPs, and Web mail services.
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Much of the trouble centered on phishing, a type of attack where fake Web pages are constructed to harvest log-in details, credit card numbers or other personal information. And, oh yes, spam is back.
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Phishing "toolkits" and underground Internet chat rooms are making the economics of online fraud so much in favor of criminals that a continued increase in phishing activity is all but certain. -washingtonpost.com
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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.