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Phish of the Millennium! | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Phish of the Millennium! April 8th, 2008 by JM Hipolito A phishing site targeting the Millennium Bank was recently discovered by the Trend Micro Content Security Team, extorting account information from unknowing users. The said bank is based in Greece and started its operations in September of 2000...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-09-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: Major Career Web Sites Hit by Spammers Attack

Major Career Web Sites Hit by Spammers Attack What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances , like the ones already offered for use on demand? It’s targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-13-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
All You Need is Storm Worm's Love - Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge

All You Need is Storm Worm's Love The Storm Worm malware launched yet another spam campaign promoting links to malware serving hosts, in between a SQL injection related to Storm Worm . These are Storm Worm's latest domains where the infected hosts try to phone back : cadeaux-avenue.cn (active...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-20-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Phishing Piers on Legitimate Sites - F-Secure.com

Phishing Piers on Legitimate Sites Posted by Sean @ 10:52 GMT | Comments Let's say that you want to phish for PayPal accounts. One might attempt to register something such as paypol-sevice.com . But that's too obvious and is likely to be discovered and abused before the phishing even begins....

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-21-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Comcast.net not Hacked, DNS Records Hijacked

I don't know about you, but I find this pretty damn funny... Comcast.net not Hacked, DNS Records Hijacked Two days ago in a show off move, the Kryogenics team managed to change the DNS records of Comcast.net , and consequently, redirect traffic to third-party servers, which in this incident only...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-30-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Investigating fraudulent email and another Nigerian scam twist - SANS Internet Storm Center

Investigating fraudulent email and another Nigerian scam twist Published: 2008-06-05, Last Updated: 2008-06-05 04:13:12 UTC by Lenny Zeltser (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) "THOSE PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH ARE FAKE." So starts the Nigerian-style scam email submitted to us by Daniel Sefton. In such...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-05-2008
Filed under: Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Scammers Dive in to LinkedIn - Trend Micro Blog

Scammers Dive in to LinkedIn by Arman Capili (Technical Communications) Scam artists have recently taken center stage on LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals. Reports indicate that scammers have eyed the lucrative membership base of LinkedIn since these miscreants are fully aware that...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-06-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Vishing Attacks Increasing - Trend Labs Malware Blog

Jun13 Vishing Attacks Increasing by Carolyn Guevarra (Technical Communications) In recent months, Web site compromises have become the most prevalent problem that threatens Internet users from all over. While this trend continues to dominate today’s security issues, let’s not forget about other threats...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-16-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
New spam trend: Spammers take advantage of high gas prices and credit crunch to advertise products and services - Date: 06.25.2008 - Websense® Security Labs

New spam trend: Spammers take advantage of high gas prices and credit crunch to advertise products and services - Date: 06.25.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Sites / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected an increase in spam targeting the current economic factors....

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-27-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime
Two-Factor Authentication Debunked by TSB Phish - TrendLabs Malware Blog

Jul1 Two-Factor Authentication Debunked by TSB Phish by Fatima Bancod (Email Security Analyst) Trend Micro Content Security discovered a phishing URL that, when loaded, displays a Web page strikingly similar to the Irish bank Permanent TSB (formerly known as the Irish Permanent Building Society). Online...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-10-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security, Cybercrime

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