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Phishers turn to fax scams
News In a new scam, attackers are sending email warnings that appear to come from PayPal, security specialist Sophos said on Wednesday. The emails direct people to a Microsoft Word document hosted on a... [12 Aug 2005]
Stock scam spam: Going up
News The volume of stock scam spam has risen, posing a new threat to investors, warns a new study from network security firm Sophos. The volume of "pump-and-dump" stock scam email has... [05 Aug 2005]
Phishing victims learn an expensive lesson
News According to antivirus company Sophos, the programme invites its victims to sign up for the scam in the aim of recruiting staff for Credit Suisse. Russian spammers are targeting thousands of Australians... [01 Nov 2004]
£45m online fraud nets 53 arrests
News They used phishing techniques to make the scam work," said Joviel Britto, a spokesman for the Brazilian Federal Police. According to security company Sophos, banks that were targeted in... [21 Oct 2004]
"Most devious" bank email phishing scam discovered
News The architects of the latest scam also adopted a more insidious web re-direction technique to bamboozle victims than Sophos had ever seen before. Typically, phishing... [04 Mar 2004]
Hackers go all out with PayPal spam phishing scam Trojan
News The change in virus-writing strategy could be an attempt by writers to bypass unwitting users' virus protection, but antivirus firm Sophos has advised companies to block executable code that arrives via email so that the... [16 Jan 2004]
'PayPal' Mimail worm variant on the loose
News We have increasingly seen over the last two years things that drop back door trojans onto systems to gather information but this is the first time we have seen it wrapped up with the whole PayPal scam," he said. [14 Nov 2003]
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