phishers
RSS phishersPhishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News Fraudsters have attempted to steal an estimated $100m from corporate bank accounts using malware and money mules, the FBI said yesterday. The FBI is seeing several new victim complaints and cases every week, according to an Internet... [04 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up The Round-Up's still on about the phishers, by the way. Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good denizens of Planet Interweb. Rarely a day goes by when you don't get a badly worded email from a bank you... [24 Jul 2009]
Microsoft takes aim at alleged IM spammers and phishers
News Microsoft is bringing out the big guns to combat instant message spam - known as spim - and phishing attacks done to users of its Live Messenger network. The software giant filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in King County Superior Court in... [17 Jul 2009]
Spam, Phishing, and the Looming Challenge of Big Botnets
White Paper As anti-spam and anti-phishing defenses improve, there is more than sufficient financial motivation for spammers and phishers to consider what they can accomplish with enormous scale. They describe possible attacks by... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam and the Ongoing Battle for Safe Communications
White Paper Spammers and phishers have been using increasingly sophisticated techniques to attack these forms. Managing spam is an increasingly critical function for businesses of all sizes. According to the February, 2007, issue of... [01 Jul 2009]
A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons
White Paper The enormous amount of phishing activity is evidence of its failure to deliver riches rather than its success, as phishers send more and more email hoping for their share of the bounty that eludes them. [01 Jul 2009]
An Anti-Phishing Application for the End User
White Paper Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by 'Phishers' for their own personal gain is the primary objective of the phishing e-mails. [30 Jun 2009]
Can Phishing Be Foiled?
White Paper Sometimes victims need only click on links or open e-mail attachments for their computers to become infected by malicious software - known as malware - that allows phishers to retrieve the data they want or take control... [30 Jun 2009]
Why Anti-Phishing?
White Paper Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication. Misspelled URLs or the use of... [01 May 2009]
Bank phishing fraudsters learn to spell
News Phishers aiming to defraud banks have raised their game - and at the very least have learned to spell - according to the banking executives tasked with stopping them. According to David Shroyer, Bank of America senior... [23 Apr 2009]
Phishing attacks costing banks $350 a pop
News Consumers meanwhile are recovering more than half of their losses to such attacks, the report found, leaving banks and other financial services companies to feel the brunt of phishers' work. More than five million US... [16 Apr 2009]
Online bank fraud doubles to £52.5m
News According to a spokeswoman for Apacs, the rise can partly be attributed to the increase in people accessing their bank accounts online - and the attention that they attract from phishers. The cost of online banking fraud... [20 Mar 2009]
Understanding and Preventing Phishing & Pharming
White Paper Phishers and pharmers use multiple attack vectors through which your end users could unwittingly give away the keys to the company databanks. The commission of fraud through sophisticated phishing and pharming techniques... [18 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Beware the new phishers
Comment Compiled in San Francisco Airport having observed a young man 'cruising' computer screens in the gate area. Dispatched the next day from San Diego via a free hotel LAN During the past 12 months or so I have become increasingly aware of... [01 Mar 2009]
eBay: Let us look inside your PC
News From this year, eBay will open the doors on a new site offering malware scanning to its users as part of a raft of new features aimed at beating the phishers and virus writers. The site, eBay Garage, will run an embedded... [23 Feb 2009]
