phishing

Phishing attacks through impersonation of e-commerce sites and gaming companies increased significantly year-over-year around the world in the third quarter of 2010, according …

A well crafted e-mail purportedly coming from the “PayPal Review Department” has been hitting inboxes lately. In it, potential victims are notified that due to …

Orkut users have lately been targeted with a clever scheme that redirects them to phishing pages without them having to do anything except visit a compromised account. Using …

30% of attacks against websites that use two-factor authentication are now utilizing real-time man-in-the-middle techniques to bypass this trusted security mechanism, …

E-mails purportedly sent by the United States Automobile Association (USAA) have been hitting inboxes in the last few days, M86 researchers warn. In it, the recipients are …

Analysis reveals that targeted attacks have increased significantly since they were first discovered five years ago from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per …

A link that will supposedly take users to a page where they can use a “mobile” version of Twitter has been popping up here and there in a number of chatrooms over …

The world’s most prolific phishing gang has completed a transition from using conventional phishing to massively propagating stealthy password-stealing crimeware that …

WoW players are continually targeted by phishers, since account credentials can be easily sold. There are many variants of phishing e-mails and in-game messages, and it pays …

Phishers taking advantage of the extended deadline for Indian taxpayers to file their income tax have cleverly thought of a way to trick customers of various banks with the …

Social media sites and educational institutions were increasingly targeted by phishers who continued to expand the targets of their attacks in the first half of 2010. With …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, reviews, interviews and podcasts: XSS flaws found on three security firms’ …