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Cybersquatting Security Vendors for Fraudulent Purposes

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2008-03-20 20:03:30 by HASH0x8b6d09c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...brands can not only damage their reputation if the campaign's not taken care of fast enough, but can also result in actual adware infection. Who's getting targeted in this campaign? PandaSecurity , McAfee , Adobe Acrobat, and several other third party applications. It seems that IBSOFTWARE CYPRUS is keeping the entire domains portfolio...
 
Tags: interactive brands, brands, interactive, interactive brands offers, domains, customer support center, ripoff report, offers, adobe acrobat
 
 
 
 
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Rock Phish-ing in December

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2008-12-02 07:12:31 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
 
...brands, the thousands of malware infected hosts and domains are targeting Alliance & Leicester and Abbey National only Active Rock Phish Domains in fast-flux stgsfw7sr .com q06ciwt60 .com jnlyf96v4 .com neegzlh35 .com 7azwmrsg5 .com pn3ekq976 .com 2coxi8sb6 .com d8ri1iz5d .com ki7wvgauf .com 5nt5r3keh .com 5nt29884j .com bgoryomek .com...
 
Tags: fast flux networks, fast, fast-flux spam, fast-flux, fast flux provider, mybank, fast-flux research, rock phish-ing, provider
 
 
 
 
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A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Thirteen

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2008-11-12 16:57:26 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...brands we've monitoring throughout 2008, will be basically typosquatted in a 2009 like fashion, or would they simply introduce new brands. With their business model under pressure, I'm starting to see evidence of schemes involving the illegal advertisement of affiliate links to legitimate security software, where the cybercriminals are actual...
 
Tags: security software, software, fake security software, popular software, diverse portfolio, wordpress, wordpress accounts, proactive threat intell, net
 
 
 
 
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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
...brands and the phishers in terms of catching up with each other's activities In the very same way, malware authors apply Quality and Assurance practices to their malware releases by sandboxing, making sure they have a low detection rate by scanning them with all the anti virus scanners available, as well as ensuring they'll phone back home...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #58

2007-04-16 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...brands, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is global in scope, and designed to ensure the security of consumer credit card data throughout the information lifecycle. Recently, an RSA survey asked businesses for opinions on issues related to PCI DSS including rates of compliance, perceptions of the standard, and...
 
Tags: pci dss, pci dss requirements, rsas dave howell, pci solutions, weeks podcast, information lifecycle, rsa survey, security, issues
 
 
 
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brands (S&K Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Online customers of www.skmenswear.com Number Affected Unknown 25 reported New Hampshire residents Types of Data Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers, and expiration dates Breach Description According to the breach notification letter sent to the New Hampshire...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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209.1 Host Locked

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2007-12-18 17:56:28 by HASH0x8713b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...brands on a single domain. Here's another perspective on the blended threat posed by phishing emails that come with embedded banker malware , the results of which get later on aggregated in a banking malware infected botnet only . Find out more about trends and developments related to phishing in 2007 in a related article, and the Rock Phish...
 
Tags: rock phish kit, rock phish, aspx, malware campaigns, malware, rock phish domain, banker malware, campaigns, host
 
 
 
 
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NatWest bank heads phishing league table in the U.K.

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3a240 in Network World on Security
 
Antispam outfit ClearMyMail has published a league table of the U.K.'s most 'phished' brands, with the NatWest bank way out in front as the most targeted name
 
Tags: league table, antispam outfit clearmymail, bank, front, brands
 
 
 
 
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EBays PayPal uses e-mail authentication to combat fraud

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
E-commerce giant eBay and its Paypal subsidiary are the most-spoofed brands by fraudster today, according to research firm Gartner. Mike Vergara, senior director of accounts protection at PayPal, discusses what the e-commerce giant is doing to protect its customers, including the new e-mail signing and checking effort to make sure customers...
 
Tags: paypal, e-commerce giant ebay, e-commerce giant, research firm gartner, paypal subsidiary, mike vergara, senior director, e-mail, customers