phishing
WoW phishing email threatens with account termination
World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …
Things to watch out for during tax season
Most people look forward to their refunds to pay for a nice vacation or pay off some debt. But when filing your taxes online, there are a number of ways you can lose that …
Phishing HTML attachments bypass browser detection
In the constant war that goes on between online crooks and scammers and security professionals, adaptability is a quality greatly prized by all. All of them are tied together …
Anti-phishing tool detects fraudulent sites by analyzing their elements
A Hong Kong City University professor that concentrates his effort on ways for combating phishing has recently made public a piece of software that proactively detects …
Phishers target university students paying fees online
A few days ago, we wrote about a bogus university website stealing photos and content from the website of a legitimate Oregon college in order to collect application fees from …
Scam e-mails can now be forwarded to the police
Action Fraud – the UK’s national fraud reporting centre run by the governmental National Fraud Authority – has recently set up a dedicated e-mail address to …
Phishers exploit New Zealand earthquake
Natural disasters are practically always exploited by scammers, and the earthquake that hit New Zealand and left thousands of its citizens homeless is not an exception, …
Play.com customers at risk from phishing
Play.com, one of the biggest UK online retailers, has its share of scammers that try to lure users searching for a bargain and scam them out of their hard earned money. Play …
Student phishing scheme just tip of the iceberg
Students are back in their university and college seats and some of them may have enjoyed their time away from school without checking their e-mails. With perfect timing, the …
PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes
PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with “Please confirm your identity” in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download …
Phishing scam and malware distribution scheme combined
The Facebook phishing campaign spotted yesterday turned out not to be so unimaginative after all. F-Secure researchers decided to see it through and entered login credentials …
Vulnerability allows phishing messages on RapidShare.com
An improper input validation vulnerability discovered recently by M86’s researchers could be used to create phishing messages targeting RapidShare users. The discovery …