Netcraft goes fishing for phishers
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New plug-in software for browsers aims to help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud.
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Latest worm poses a risk to many Web sites using the PHP scripting language.
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There's an important note from Netcraft to everyone out there using the WordPress "publishing platform":
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Researchers see a rise in malware that sends spam recipients to DNS servers controlled by phishers.
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A recent flood of fake Citibank e-mail messages demonstrates the growing arsenal of tricks used by online "phishers."
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Web villains post do-it-yourself phishing kits to help any amateur become an online con artist.
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Some websites are now offering surfers the chance to download free &quot;phishing kits&quot; containing all the graphics, web code and text required to construct the kind of bogus sites used in internet phishing scams.
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Cyber rights hacking group creates browser that makes it possible to surf the net anonymously.
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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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9 out of 10 crooks use ready-made code Phishing kits are helping to dumb down the process of creating fraudulent websites. Back in the day, setting up a bogus facsimile of a banking site required a modicum of programming skills. No more.â¦
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Hole could allow remote attackers to access your local search results.
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Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection.
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Reports suggest phishing gangs are turning to automatic tools to mount more attacks than ever.
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With phishing attacks skyrocketing, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a consumer alert detailing ways Web surfers can avoid being fleeced by online scammers.
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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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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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(InfoWorld) - Phishers have been using compromised MySpace.com accounts to attack unsuspecting Web surfers, security experts said Thursday. The attack is thought to have infected several thousand PCs according to reports from ISPs, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute. Ullrich has documented the issue on the SANS Internet Storm Center blog. Lawrence Baldwin, chief forensics officer with security vendor MyNetWatchman, discovered the threat Tuesday, and The Washington Post reported on it late Wednesday. Criminals have managed to install fake navigation bars on the top of MySpace.com user profile pages that, when clicked, lead to malicious computers that attempt to infect the victim's computer. The attack uses several known Internet Explorer flaws that have been fixed, so users who have installed the latest Microsoft patches are not at risk, security experts said. The code was installed on "maybe a few dozen," MySpace.com pages, most of which have been removed by administrators at the social-networking site, Ullrich said. MySpace.com representatives did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday. Two components comprise the attack. It attempts to install malicious botnet software on victims' computers, and it uses these infected computers to try to steal MySpace credentials in a phishing attack. Computers that are compromised by the attack become infected with malicious botnet software known as "flux bot," which makes them unwitting participants in the phishing scam. After the malicious Web site attempts to install the flux bot code, it then presents victims with a fake MySpace.com login page, which tries to extract their MySpace.com user name and password. Baldwin allowed one of his test computers to be infected with flux bot and found that attackers were remarkably successful at stealing passwords. "I operated as a flux node for about 12 hours and did a full audit of all the traffic coming into my machine. I was probably getting close to 60 MySpace users an hour surfing to my flux node. And at least a quarter of those actually gave up their credentials." Baldwin estimates that the attackers were using another 200 compromised flux bot machines in their attack. Because MySpace.com allows users to install their own HTML code and isÂ visited by such a large number of technically unsophisticated users, it has becomeÂ an attractive target for these types of attacks. Last December, hackers created a worm that quickly spread across MySpace.com, stealing user names and passwords. That worm exploited a flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player.