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RSS phishers in newsPhishers cash in on credit crisis
News It seems phishers are cashing in on the current economic crisis and climate of mergers between financial institutions. Phishers and scammers commonly exploit news events to lure victims to sites that... [03 Oct 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Max Kelly said... [23 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an... [09 Apr 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline
News UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal with everyday e-crime. [12 Mar 2008]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Once the phishers had the contact list, they attempted to phish Salesforce.com customers. Not content with the security breaches already achieved, the phishers began to target Salesforce.com customers... [08 Nov 2007]
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News Yahoo! is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys technology, to block phishing spam and other fraudulent emails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. The DomainKeys system works by verifying the domain of the sender... [04 Oct 2007]
Phishers jump on the iPhone bandwagon
News As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in US stores, spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won an iPhone of their own. [03 Jul 2007]
Phishing sites doubled last month - report
News Researchers from internet fraud prevention company MarkMonitor said the sharp increase was in part due to phishers putting large numbers of phishing site URLs on the same domain, a tactic first seen last autumn. [25 May 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News Spammers, phishers and other internet fraudsters, be warned. DomainKeys represents a radical shift in the arms race between phishers, in particular, and internet users. It's called DomainKeys Identified... [23 May 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News This includes phishers sending links to people for spoof sites of banks that the intended victims actually use, as opposed to randomly hitting a section of the population. Phishing attacks have outstripped the number of... [31 Jan 2007]
Phishers going after platinum
News Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said: "While we can't say phishers were targeting these people, we can say they did get more phishing email than others. It could be because of the lists they are on, which... [10 Nov 2006]
FBI nabs phishers in US, Poland
News The FBI plans on Friday to announce the arrest of at least 16 individuals in connection with a global cybercrime investigation. More than 20 FBI offices participated in the probe into a series of phishing attacks against a "major... [03 Nov 2006]
Can IE 7 kill off phishing?
News Everything like this is all good but the more sophisticated phishers move a lot more quickly than the technology. Phishing could soon be a thing of the past and the credit may have to go to Microsoft. [27 Oct 2006]
Spoofing flaw unearthed in IE 7
News Security experts have found a weakness in Internet Explorer 7 that could help crooks mask phishing scams, the type of attack Microsoft designed the browser to thwart. IE 7, released last week, allows a website to display a pop-up that... [26 Oct 2006]
Cheap VoIP? It's a 'vish' come true for scammers...
News Phishers have already been sending out emails that attempt to trick people into sharing personal information over the phone, instead of via a website, the traditional scam. Cheaply available voice over IP numbers and net... [11 Jul 2006]
