July 29, 2010 - In the past couple of months, pornography has been used as bait in several phishing websites. In particular, phishers used fake images of the Indian film star Katrina Kaif on a phishing site that spoofed a social networking brand. The (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2010 - The ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup begins on February 17, 2011, and phishing sites promoting the tournament have already been observed: One of the phishing sites spoofs a popular social networking site and has a logo of the (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2010 - In July 2010, several phishing sites were observed to be spoofing social networking brands. This in itself is nothing new, but this time the sites were posting fake offers for free online mobile phone airtime top-ups. The phishing pages displayed (continue reading...) Read more
July 21, 2010 - Phishers have been targeting many sectors to steal confidential information for various reasons. Most of the time, the motive is financial gain. Here is an example of a phishing attack that was primarily targeting information for reasons other than financial (continue reading...) Read more
July 16, 2010 - The FIFA World Cup 2010 is over, but the trend in phishing related to FIFA continues. In July, phishing websites were observed spoofing a Chinese E-commerce brand that promoted FIFA World Cup 2010. The fraudulent login pages contained cartoon characters (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2010 - After executing a variety of notorious activities targeting the FIFA World Cup, spammers have shifted their focus slightly to target another popular soccer/football topic. Symantec has observed a spam campaign targeting the Barclay’s Premier League, which is an English professional (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2010 - Spammers never depend on fixed strategies. They cannot afford to attach themselves to a single method of mass mailing. It does happen that an old attack method is revisited—a minor change is applied to the messages, just to match the (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2010 - In the past month, Symantec has observed a fraudulent website spoofing a social networking brand. The phishing website has tried to make an association between a pornographic website and the social networking brand. The legitimate social networking site does not (continue reading...) Read more
July 9, 2010 - Spam made up 88.32% of all email messages in June, compared with 89.81% in May. Are spammers trying to make up for the loss of several zombie networks due to legal actions? The answer is yes, because June 2010 was (continue reading...) Read more
June 30, 2010 - In the past month, several phishing websites were observed to be spoofing online gaming brands. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup has encouraged users to visit legitimate gaming sites to play online football. The phishing sites were created with (continue reading...) Read more
June 24, 2010 - June 25, 2009 is a day that is etched in the memory of Michael Jackson fans worldwide. Jackson's death took a lot of people by surprise—the spammers included. However, it took spammers just a few hours to take advantage of (continue reading...) Read more
June 23, 2010 - There are several special occasions throughout the year that help to deliver a sense of solidarity and unity among people. Social networking sites have gained popularity by linking people together from different geographic locations; hence, social networking sites promote special (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2010 - Spammers seem to be on something of a Twitter rampage of late. They have sent out a wide variety of spammed messages recently that all appear to be from Twitter: (continue reading...) Read more
June 3, 2010 - TrendLabsSM engineers Alvin Bacani and Jayson Pryde recently analyzed a new spyware (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_OPINIONSPY.A) that came bundled with screensavers, according to Intego, in sites that host free applications and software updates like MacUpdate, Softpedia, (continue reading...) Read more
June 2, 2010 - We recently received a report of a new phishing attack that originated from Mexico. It takes advantage of the controversial news about an allegedly missing four-year-old girl, Paulette Gebara Farah, who was later found dead in her own bedroom. (continue reading...) Read more
May 25, 2010 - In May 2010, a phishing site was observed to be spoofing a credit union that provides financial services to members of the U.S. Defense Department and their family members. The defense forces covered by the credit union include the Army, (continue reading...) Read more
May 25, 2010 - Italian bank Banca Popolare di Sondrio has become phishers’ new target with the discovery of a spammed message containing a link to the supposed bank’s Internet banking site, SCRIGNO. As (continue reading...) Read more
May 24, 2010 - In May 2010, a phishing website was observed to be spoofing a leading, legitimate brand that provides online file transfer services. These services help people to send, receive, or host files of large sizes. Email messages typically have a limitation (continue reading...) Read more
May 19, 2010 - Symantec has recently observed phishing attacks on a leading brand that provides investment and brokerage services. The brand is primarily into brokerage but also offers other various services to customers, such as investment research, mutual funds, bond trading, mortgages, and (continue reading...) Read more