Re: Recent rise in Phishing attacks

[GuidoZ <uberguidoz () gmail com>]

I've seen a large rise in my current inbox(es), but beyond that I
don't have anything to add. I'm used to seeing 6-8 per day, though
over the past months it's risen to 15+. Mostly the usual (PayPal,
eBay, ATM cards), although I'm seeing more obscure banks and CC cards
making the rounds as of late.

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Peace. ~G


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:20:58 -0700, Hubbard, Dan <dhubbard () websense com> wrote:
> Starting Sunday afternoon (Oct 5, 04) we are currently seeing a massive
> increase in the amount of phishing sites (more than a 10 times increase
> than our regular load). There is not one particular brand being targeted
> but several. The one piece of commonality is that these almost all are
> being hosted on IP addresses and mostly outside of the US.  It appears
> as though some sort of toolkit maybe available and/or a set of tools
> that are utilizing a large bot network for this.
>
> Does anyone have any evidence or other information to share regarding
> this?
>
> _______________________________
> Dan Hubbard
> Security & Technology Research
> Websense Security Labs
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