phishing scam
RSS phishing scamRevealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake security warning messages popping up on your screen are only the most visible part of a complex scam. In the early days a lot of the scareware was a smokescreen... [19 Oct 2009]
Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News The phishing deluge has continued into October, with taxpayers alerting HMRC to 10,000 scam attempts in a single day this month. The number of scam emails offering fake tax refunds hit... [16 Oct 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The scammers are using the open-source Jabber IM protocol to manage the one-on-one chat, RSA said, declining to identify the bank involved in the scam. Online scammers have created a phishing site... [18 Sep 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News It's not the first time the HMRC has been targeted by the fraudsters: last month, the taxman warned of a phishing scam that claimed to come from the department, offering a refund. The... [06 Aug 2009]
Are Spyware and Phishing Secretly Compromising Your Network?
White Paper By stopping threats at the internet level, one will be able to prevent the headaches and clean-up costs associated with a spyware infection or a targeted phishing scam and therefore lower the Total Cost... [01 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up The scam works by encouraging recipients to give their bank or credit card details in order to collect the supposed tax refund - leaving them open to having their bank accounts drained and the possibility of ID theft. [24 Jul 2009]
Getting a tax refund? Don't be too sure
News According to HMRC, "criminal gangs" are behind a phishing scam currently doing the rounds which promises recipients they are due a tax refund. The phishing scam works by... [23 Jul 2009]
Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
White Paper Phishing, an online scam in which people are tricked into divulging sensitive personal and account information, is a serious threat both to consumers and institutions doing business on the Web. It also... [01 Jul 2009]
Improved Phishing Detection Using Model-Based Features
White Paper Filtering approaches using blacklists are not completely effective as about every minute a new phishing scam is created. Phishing emails are a real threat to internet communication and... [01 Jul 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News Contrary to earlier reports that the attack was a worm, the Kaspersky blog post speculates that the attackers were using accounts stolen in a phishing attack about a week ago. Last week, thousands of Twitter users were... [02 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.04.09
Round-Up According to the analysts Gartner, the average cost of the average successful phishing scam attached to the average US bank was $351 last year, a drop of 60 per cent on the year before. They clog up your... [24 Apr 2009]
Bank phishing fraudsters learn to spell
News As a result, any customers that do click on the link in a phishing email are alerted to the scam, rather than simply finding a broken link. For example, fraudsters are now building... [23 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The cases include a suspected insider trader at a bank where €95m had gone missing and a father and daughter accused of defrauding Britons of £35m in a boiler-room scam. Bowron said: "The NFRC will as never before ensure... [25 Mar 2009]
Best Practices: Protecting Against the Growing Threat of Phishing Scams
White Paper Responsibility also falls on each business and on its employees to be educated and aware in order not to become the victim of a phishing scam. Phishing threats are growing in... [20 Jan 2009]
Are you talking to the real taxman?
News Lesley Strathie, HMRC chief executive, said in a statement: "This is the most sophisticated and prolific phishing scam that we have encountered. HMRC said it had received 11,000 scam... [08 Jan 2009]
