phishing
Multilingual PayPal phishing e-mails doing rounds
A recent report compiled by OpenDNS showed that 45 percent of all phishing attempts made in 2010 were targeting PayPal customers. It is no wonder then that we witness PayPal …
Chinese spies attempted to spear-phish US diplomats?
While some of the documents from the batch of US diplomatic cables dumped by WikiLeaks have proved to be more explosive than others, every now and then some nugget of …
Expanding phishing vector: Classified ads
The online classified advertisement services sector has been increasingly exploited as a phishing attack vector by ecrime gangs, a trend confirmed by the growth of attacks …
An increase in form-based e-mail phishing attacks
Luring people in with the promise of hefty tax refunds and “stimulus payments”, phishers have been targeting users with e-mails purportedly coming from HM Revenue …
PayPal most phished, Facebook most blocked
OpenDNS released statistics about which websites were commonly blocked — and which websites users were frequently given access to — in 2010. The report additionally details …
Dramatic increase in malware and phishing via social networks
By mid-2010, Facebook recorded half a billion active users, making it not only the largest social networking site, but also one of the most popular destinations on the web. …
Tuesday is the most active day for threats
The most active day for threat-related traffic worldwide is Tuesday, with Monday a close second, according to a report by SonicWALL. This pattern holds true for the U.S., …
Week in review: Phishing, Kneber botnet and Microsoft vulnerabilities
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Adobe PDF format riddled with exploitable features Adobe’s PDF …
Mobile users more vulnerable to phishing attacks
Trusteer recently gained access to the log files of several web servers that were hosting phishing websites. Analyzing these log files provided visibility into how many users …
Security, is there an app for that?
Smartphones are now an essential tool across all sections of society, from top government officials to businesses and consumers. If you are one of the hundreds of millions of …
Avoid the phishing net
Phishing, the process of attempting to acquire sensitive information by masquerading as a legitimate and trustworthy company via online means, used to just be a problem for …
The golden hour of phishing attacks
Trusteer conducted research into the attack potency and time-to-infection of email phishing attacks. One of their findings was that 50 per cent of phishing victims’ …