Archive for the ‘Phishing’ Category
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Since March 2010, and especially this month, the MarkMonitor Security Operations Center (SOC) has noticed a significant increase in the use of free web hosting services for phishing and malware attacks. Cybercriminals are using free hosting services to either host the phishing and malware sites themselves or redirect to fast-flux ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Beginning this month, MarkMonitor will be sharing a new, monthly Fraud Intelligence Report with customers and other interested parties in our blog. The goal of the report is to provide timely analysis of developing trends and new threats in the fraud landscape. The Fraud Intelligence Report will complement the current ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
In the past few months, a flurry of gift card scams leveraging such high-profile brands as Best Buy, Whole Foods and IKEA have emerged on Facebook. These scams often use the brand’s logo, website URL, or general “look and feel” on Facebook “fan” pages to give the impression that these ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
A common security prediction for 2010 is the continued rise of malware and phishing attacks on mobile phones. The MarkMonitor SOC recently detected an interesting twist on this theme involving a popular smartphone and the latest smart technologies used by cybercriminals. In this case, instead of compromising a smartphone to ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Phishing attacks have become more sophisticated with the use of fast-flux botnets as resilient attack platforms. The fast-fluxing among hundreds of compromised computers which serve as proxies for phishing sites means that detection and shutdown become more difficult.
One particular fast-flux botnet called Avalanche has received much attention in recent months ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
For retailers and consumers, Cyber Monday marked the beginning of the online holiday shopping season. For cybercriminals, however, it marked the opening of their winter phishing season.
Here at MarkMonitor, we are currently seeing an uptick in cybercriminal activity targeting online retailers’ brands. Linked here is an example of a phish attack ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
You have to give scammers credit, as they are a creative bunch. While most of us think of the annual open enrollment period for employee benefits as a non-event, scammers see it as an opportunity.
Just last month we’ve seen suspicious sites targeting employees of some of the largest corporations. In ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Most major brands suffer some type of online attacks but few use those attacks as opportunities to educate their customers.
This week, our customer Facebook experienced a high-profile phishing attack. Coincidentally, the attack just barely preceded our announcement that Facebook was expanding their relationship with MarkMonitor.
Facebook made the proverbial lemonade ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Javelin Strategy and Research recently released a study entitled “The Importance of Consumer Trust on FI Profitability” which attempts to measure the relationship between consumer confidence and credit card spending.
The study, conducted in 2008 using a random sample of 2,339 online respondents representative of gender, age, and income levels of ...
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