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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers, spammers and malware authors for a while The allure of being self-sufficient doesnt seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammers results oriented attitude. Spammers excel at harvesting and purchasing email addresses , sending, and successfully delivering the messages, phishers are masters of social engineering, while on...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Phishers point scam at Apple's iTunes

2008-05-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0de98 in Network World on Security
 
Phishers have targeted users of Apple's iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday
 
Tags: itunes music store, identity theft attacks, security company, apple, phishers, time, users, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo! Groups Are Used By Phishers To Send Personalized Scam Emails

2008-06-25 22:51:46 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A spam campaign that sends personalized phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups has recently been reported by TrendLabs researchers, Jake Soriano and Grace Ermitanyo (who provided detailed analysis about this attack). Phishers appear to have sent phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups via either the standard posting methods through Yahoo! Groups...
 
Tags: yahoo, emails, spam campaign, jake soriano, grace ermitanyo, trendlabs researchers, phishers, standard, recently
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...phishers can steal money out of the victims' accounts or take their identities. To protect our users against phishing, we publish a blacklist of known phishing sites. This blacklist is the basis for the anti-phishing features in the latest versions of Firefox and Google Desktop. Although blacklists are necessarily a step behind as phishers...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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MySpace Hosting MySpace Phishing Profiles

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2008-05-05 02:29:00 by HASH0x8adc538 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers and social networking sites, is a great example of how malicious parties continue to be a step ahead of the reactive response of those and many other web properties. The majority of phishing emails usually take advantage of typosquatting, or sub-domaining to the point where the URL is perfectly mimicking the only property's web...
 
Tags: myspace, phishers, phishers shift, myspace phishers, authentic myspace, scale myspace, profile, natural profile, fake profile
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers scamming the phishers, facts that are shifting the emphasis on the segmentation, malicious economies of scale concept, the spamming process of phishing emails, and of course, the arms race between the targeted brands and the phishers in terms of catching up with each other's activities In the very same way, malware authors apply...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments

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2007-12-12 10:02:39 by HASH0x89e8bec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers demonstrated for yet another consecutive year their persistence and creativity on their way to socially engineer as many people online as possible, into believing they are who they pretend to be. Why did phishers embrace economies of scale during 2007, what factors contributed to the constantly shrinking period of time it takes for...
 
Tags: phishers embrace economies, phishers, article aims, article, people online, factors, key factors, people, popular spammers strategies
 
 
 
 
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Phishing reloaded

2008-04-04 21:18:18 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...phishers are moving on. Possibly just too bored with how simple it is to do a "normal" phish, or attempting to improve signal-to-noise ratio, they are building the tools that allow them to easily bypass the strong authentication that has not even been rolled out everywhere Recent reports indicate an increase in phishing-based trojans and...
 
Tags: fraudulent, fraudulent server replies, paper describes mechanisms, paper, dns lookups, specific dns lookups, fraudulent dns server, traffic redirectors, user authentication method
 
 
 
 
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Web Email Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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2008-04-16 13:42:23 by HASH0x8ab1c88 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers, spammers and malware authors are consolidating, can be just as effective for conducting cyber espionage , just as gathering OSINT through botnets by segmenting the infected population is. Why try to malware infect the high-profile targets , when they could already be malware infected Furthermore, XSS vulnerabilities within banking...
 
Tags: xss vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, kit, day xss vulnerabilities, xss exploitation kit, xss, xss exploitation, mail server, mail