Massive IE Phishing Exploit Discovered
News A vulnerability researcher posted details of a dangerous Internet Explorer (IE) flaw on Thursday that allows phishers to spoof Web sites more realistically than ever before. This is the vulnerability that phishers and scammers have been looking for.
[December 17, 2004, 12:10]
Shorter URLs Help Phishers Hook More Victims
News Phishers are using shorter URLs for malicious sites in a bid to lend an air of legitimacy to threatening links. Phishers "appear to have adopted shorter URLs to avoid the suspicion of their potential victims", he said.
[December 3, 2007, 7:56]
Phishers Improve Bait As They Target ISPs
News However, according to the APGW, the organisations targeted by phishers have diversified, and the phishers' HTML skills have greatly improved. According to Jevans, the phishers are primarily after credit card information, so a typical scam email...
[February 5, 2004, 14:15]
Thunderbird Gets Phishing Detection
News These applications will warn users who try to visit a URL that includes an unnecessary username -- a trick used by phishers to hide the true domain name of a site. When a user clicks on a link in an email that appears to be a phishing URL, the...
[January 24, 2005, 16:05]
Coding Error Thwarts Paralympic Phishing Scam
News Fortunately for the Paralympic movement, the phishers made a critical mistake. Despite the error, the appeal to charitable instincts suggests that phishers -- often said to be linked to organised crime -- aren't slowing down their attempts to...
[June 1, 2004, 12:50]
Banks Must Pay Up For Security
Leader But the smell of the money has attracted a new generation of criminals in the shape of phishers who try to trick the unwary into handing over their personal details, or fool them with fake sites. Savvy users already know that clicking on a URL in...
[March 9, 2005, 14:00]
Toxic Phishers Scam The Unwary
News According to Antiphishing Working Group chairman David Jevans, PayPal isn't the only target of phishers. Like spam, email from phishers usually contains spoofed From or Reply To addresses to make the email look as though it came from a legitimate...
[January 12, 2004, 14:55]
Plaxo Plugs Phishing Vulnerability
News Plaxo's service is an ideal target for phishers. It required the evildoer to trick the victim into clicking on a URL controlled by the evildoer. This URL adds some extra HTML to the target Web site (and thus is actually happening on the target Web...
[March 16, 2004, 12:25]
Phisers Use The Web
Talkback Phishers are not stupid and although there is no way for them to know a bank has started using this technique it wouldn't take them too long to figure it out either by reading posts like this or from seeing how quick their sites are getting shut...
[March 20, 2008, 12:47]
Phisers Use The Web
Talkback Phishers are not stupid and although there is no way for them to know a bank has started using this technique it wouldn't take them too long to figure it out either by reading posts like this or from seeing how quick their sites are getting shut...
[March 20, 2008, 12:37]
2004: Internet Explorer's Year Of Shame
News Some of the most important problems have included: a flaw that allowed phishers to fool the address bar into displaying a false URL; a way of disguising malicious executable files as "safe" documents; numerous vulnerabilities that could allow an...
[July 9, 2004, 10:45]
Coding Error Thwarts Paralympic Phishing Scam
Talkback If you don't have Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04/004 installed, the specially formed linked will load the phishers site, but the address bar will say the Paralympic site's address. When combined with a misuse of the clear-text authentication...
[June 3, 2004, 5:15]
F-Secure Answers .bank Criticisms
News In blog post on Saturday, Hypponen admitted that this proposal was "not a silver bullet", and that a .bank TLD could not do much against DNS poisoning or phishers creating realistic looking fake domains.
[May 21, 2007, 12:41]
PayPal Alert! Beware The 'PaypaI' Scam
Talkback I have been scamed by the paypal phishers back in Nov 05. The way you can spot the fake from the real site; not matter how close it is, is this: look at the URL in adress bar. WATCH OUT Paypal scams are back!
[January 13, 2006, 0:24]
Google Blocks Phishing Hole
News Recent trends have shown that phishers are beginning to expand their horizons. The Public Search Service phishing hole was particularly alarming because it used a real Google URL, similar to the case of a PayPal flaw found earlier this summer.
[September 19, 2006, 9:40]
Firefox Phishing Vulnerability Discovered
News David Emm, a senior technology consultant at antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, said it is unlikely that phishers will take advantage of this exploit in Firefox because Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the browser market.
[January 5, 2005, 14:30]
US Hit By 57 Million Phishing Attacks In One Year
News Even more seriously, 1.78 million Americans remember giving the phishers sensitive financial or personal information, such as credit card numbers or billing addresses, by filling in a form on a spoof Web site," said Avivah Litan from Gartner...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
Google Used In Phishing Attack
News If a person puts an extra "o" in Google's URL, they are simply redirected to the company's homepage. While relatively low-tech in terms of its social engineering, the URL mistype attack, often referred to as typosquatting, is an approach that has...
[April 28, 2005, 9:45]
