moike
PIRT Handler
Premium Member
Joined: May 26, 2006
Posts: 1873
|
 Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: Thanksgiving Day Phishing Surge |
|
|
"Barracuda Networks Reports Thanksgiving Day Phishing Surge as Scammers Rush to Cash in on ‘Black Friday’"
| Quote: |
Thousands of New Phishing Web Sites Appear in 24-hour Period as Scammers Work Overtime to Take Advantage of Four-Day U.S. Holiday Weekend
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barracuda Networks, Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, reported a more than 10x surge in the number of phishing Web sites created and three times the number of phishing emails sent out in the last 24 hours. This increase in activity indicates that scammers and their criminal networks are working feverishly to cash in on ‘Black Friday,’ traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, and the long Thanksgiving Day weekend.
Barracuda Central, a 24/7 security operations center at Barracuda Networks that continuously monitors the latest spam, virus and other Internet threats, including phishing Web sites, observed a tremendous increase in the number of fake Web sites targeting popular shopping sites, including eBay, Amazon, PayPal, and other e-commerce sites, pop up on Thanksgiving Day. Typically phishing Web sites are set up via compromised PCs of innocent businesses and are quickly shut down once the business has been notified. However, by exploiting the four-day Thanksgiving weekend in which most U.S. business activity shuts down on Thursday and Friday, scammers are banking on the idea that the sites will go uninterrupted because no one is available to take them offline.
... |
Edit : Forgot the URL - http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071123005069&newsLang=en
|
|
Forum FAQ
Search
Usergroups
Profile
Login to check your private messages
Login
