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| Anti-Phishing Working Group
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| Committed to wiping out Internet scams and fruad.
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| Cybercrooks plant phishing scam on crime reduction website
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| Phishing fraudsters hacked a Home Office crime reduction website to host an Italian phishing website on Monday.
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June 3, 2008 |
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| Cyberthieves go phishing to rob banks
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| Notorious 20th-century bank robber Willie Sutton said famously, "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
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February 13, 2008 |
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| DNS Attack Could Signal Phishing 2.0
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| Researchers uncovered an attack targeting 'open-recursive' DNS servers that controls where phishing victims go on the Internet.
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December 11, 2007 |
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| E-Mail Scams Target Deep-Pocketed Victims
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| Sophisticated phishing attacks aimed at business executives have hooked thousands of users.
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July 27, 2007 |
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| FBI Calls Antispam Law 'Effective Tool'
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| CAN-SPAM and other new laws help combat cybercrime, an FBI agent reports.
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September 15, 2007 |
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| Germany Arrests 10 in Global Internet Scam Raids
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| Police believe the suspects were involved in phishing scams that may have cost victims hundreds of thousands of euros.
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September 13, 2007 |
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| Opera Adds Anti-Phishing System
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| Opera is to integrate antiphishing technology from Haute Secure into version 9.5 of the browser, the company has announced, promising its system will outdo those of rivals such as Firefox.
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June 10, 2008 |
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| PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers
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| PayPal, one of the brands most spoofed in phishing attacks, is working on a plan to block its users from making transactions from Web browsers that don't provide anti-phishing protection.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Phishers Mimic Google Adwords
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| Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks.
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May 3, 2008 |
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| Phishers Point Scam at Apple's iTunes
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| People began receiving spammed messages Monday telling them that they must correct a problem with their iTunes account, said Andrew Lochart, an executive with e-mail security vendor Proofpoint Inc.
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May 21, 2008 |
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| Phishers Using DNS Tricks
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| Researchers see a rise in malware that sends spam recipients to DNS servers controlled by phishers.
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January 31, 2008 |
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| Phishing Attacks Double in U.K.
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| Apacs recorded more than 10,000 reported phishing incidents in the first quarter of 2008, more than 200 percent up from the same period last year.
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April 20, 2008 |
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| Phishing coders hook clueless crooks
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| No honour among Web 2.0 thieves.
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January 24, 2008 |
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| Phishing Drills Teach Employees to Dodge the Hook
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| A security consulting firm expects customers will hire them to conduct faux phishing drills.
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December 15, 2007 |
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| Phishing Education Called Inadequate
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| Researchers say that current methods of teaching users about phishing are inadequate, but some efforts are effective.
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October 10, 2007 |
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| Phishing Game Aims to Teach Online Safety
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| Dealing with phishing attacks is no lighthearted matter, but preventing one before it happens can be. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a Flash-based online game called Anti-Phishing Phil its creators hope will raise awareness about the scourge of phishing by making learning about prevention fun.
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September 19, 2007 |
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| Phishing Scams Hook Few
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| Microsoft researchers have been studying user data to determine phishing frequency and its success.
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October 7, 2007 |
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| PhishTank
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| Out of the Net, into the Tank.
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| Presidential Candidates Face Phishing Threat
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| The Web operations for 2008's U.S. presidential candidates are vulnerable to phishing attacks.
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October 11, 2007 |
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| Report Cites Increase in Phishing Attacks, New Techniques
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| A report from MessageLabs notes a rise in phishing tool kits and more aggressive tactics.
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September 29, 2007 |
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| Resist the Latest Business Phishes
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| The latest spam can take the form of a subpoena purporting to be from a United States District Court, a calendar invite, or an IRS refund, in 'net cast wide' blasts or more targeted 'spear phishing' usually aimed at businesses.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| Spear Phishing Targets CEOs
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| A new phishing threat specifically targeting corporate CEOs has found the perfect means to entice its victims into downloading the virus: by disguising itself as a court subpoena.
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April 16, 2008 |
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| Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says Verisign
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| Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted “spear-phishing” e-mail attacks, according to researchers at Verisign.
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June 6, 2008 |
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| Top-secret US labs penetrated by phishers
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| One of the most sensitive science and technology labs in the US has been hacked as part of what it called "a sophisticated cyber attack that now appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country."
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December 7, 2007 |
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| WGA Update Goes Phishing
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| The message uses a little Windows Genuine Advantage fear mongering to cajole end users to download a fake update that realy is a backdoor Trojan. The message warns: "Please update your P.C. in maximum 12 hours otherwise your Windows will be Expired."
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January 22, 2008 |
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