I saw some interesting information recently on a mailing list. We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can see, it’s obvious who the top credit [...]
The shocking statistic first, “56% of consumers do not have active anti-virus on their PCs”, ok not that shocking but still a bit worrying. Allthough asking if your average user doesn’t protect themselves on the internet conjures up images of the pope squatting in the woods. The basic F-Secure anti-virus product protects against viruses and [...]
Sounds complicated, it’s almost a tongue-twister. It turns out the carders (people using stolen credit card details fraudulently) have worked out how to get money out of the spammers (spamming being massive nowdays) Fraudsters who deal in stolen credit card data have devised a means to extract money from sponsors of junk mail campaigns. Carders [...]
I remember some time back Netcraft developed an anti-phishing toolbar for Internet Explorer Exploder and Firefox. You can check it out here: Netcraft Toolbar Protect your savings from Phishing attacks. See the hosting location and Risk Rating of every site you visit. Help defend the Internet community from fraudsters. Then recently Google has come out [...]
Phishing is a difficult enough form of fraud to avoid for most computer users, but when some of the biggest names in the financial industry fail to do their part to detect and eliminate these online scams, consumers often are placed in an untenable situation. Case in point: A source recently forwarded a link to [...]
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