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Phishing attacks powered by 'just five' zombie networks
News All phishing attacks launched across the Internet come from one of just five networks of zombie PCs, according to research published by security firm CipherTrust this week. By analysing phishing emails to find the IP addresses of the computers that...
[October 20, 2004, 18:10]
Phishing attacks hit record high in June
News June marked an increase in malware and the "highest rate of phishing attacks to date" on the web, Fortinet's latest report on online threats found. Phishing can be costly. According to earlier estimates from Gartner, each phishing attack last year...
[July 6, 2009, 15:10]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the past two months, according to research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group on Monday. Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Phishing attacks up 1,000-fold since September
News The number of phishing emails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to email security company MessageLabs. Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking...
[April 19, 2004, 17:50]
Phishing
Talkback with millions of dollars spent on anti phishing campaigns in the US it makes me wonder, if the Swedes could have done the same, as with most computer users they are dumb as a box of rocks one of the industry mags i get said 2 days ago, (yes i am...
[January 22, 2007, 15:52]
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
News Microsoft has filed a lawsuit accusing two companies of launching instant-messaging spam and phishing attacks that targeted users on its Live Messenger network. It also describes phishing attacks that mimic the look and feel of an outside service...
[July 17, 2009, 16:41]
Phishing attacks highlight banks' weaknesses
News Phishing attacks have led to an estimated $2.75bn (Ł1.55bn) in losses related to ATM and debit cards over the past 12 months, according to a new Gartner report. Scam artists are gleaning bank account numbers and PINs through the use of phishing...
[August 3, 2005, 9:00]
Phishing growing exponentially
News The number of phishing Web sites is increasing by 50 percent every month and fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to fool Internet users into revealing personal information, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's...
[October 12, 2004, 10:45]
Phishing scam 'most devious ever'
News The email, distributed en-masse to Westpac customers, represents the latest example of "phishing scams," designed to catch the unwary and fool them into divulging their online-banking security details.
[March 3, 2004, 8:00]
Phishing attacks rise ten fold in 2004
News The number of phishing attacks being launched each month has increased ten fold this year, security company MessageLabs reported on Monday. The company, which has intercepted almost 20 million phishing emails throughout 2004, said in its annual...
[December 6, 2004, 13:20]
Phishing is a real threat to financial firms
White Papers Phishing is an ever-growing form of Internet-based fraud. The costs of phishing to financial institutions — in terms of actual dollars and damage to brands — are too significant to ignore. For the financial services industry, the Internet has...
[April 11, 2008, 8:32]
Phishing flaw found - but not in IE
Talkback One of the biggest arguments out there against IDN is the Phishing argument. The argument therefore develops into the imperative of introducing IDN to prevent Phishing Scams in Asia. I feel that we should no longer be silent on the issue of...
[November 20, 2005, 14:16]
Phishing attacks surge
News There has been a massive increase in the number of attempted phishing attacks and a huge rise in the amount of money lost to online fraud, according to APACS, the UK payment services association. The Association of Payment Clearing Services (APACS...
[November 7, 2006, 15:10]
Phishing overtakes viruses and Trojans
News Phishing attacks have outstripped the number of emails infected with viruses and Trojans for the first time, according to security experts. Security mail services vendor MessageLabs reported on Monday that in January 2007, one in 93.3 (1.07 percent...
[January 30, 2007, 13:12]
Phishing attacks hotting up
News Phishing attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication while shifting from larger to smaller financial institutions, according to security vendor RSA. The vendor has tracked shifts in phishing demographics, and claims they are being driven...
[November 29, 2006, 17:02]
Phishing still on the up
Talkback Skype seem to have unwittingly got themselves caught up in a Phishing scam. In a vain effort to improve their customer payment process for "SkypeOut", they are now directing customers to a very dubious site called moneybookers.com.
[December 16, 2004, 12:48]
Phishing attacks up 20 percent in June
News There were almost 1,500 unique phishing attacks in June, a monthly increase of 19 percent, according to a report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) on Wednesday. Most phishing attacks are emails pretending to come from banks or...
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
Phishing attacks ease off
News Research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found 13,141 new phishing emails were reported to the organisation in February, an increase of just two percent compared to results from January. The number of phishing Web sites supporting these...
[March 30, 2005, 15:40]
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News The financial losses experienced by victims of phishing scams may be up to 50 times less than estimated by analysts, according to a Microsoft study. Previous studies by organisations such as Gartner, which in 2007 estimated US phishing losses at...
[January 9, 2009, 16:15]
Microsoft: Phishing is going out of fashion
News The practice of phishing for bank details, in which fake emails claim to come from a legitimate financial institution and try to elicit account details, is traditionally associated with highly organised criminal networks.
[December 13, 2006, 12:46]
