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It seems that cybercriminals will really stop at nothing to further their malicious activities. Trend Micro fraud analysts received yet another spammed message obviously designed to catch unwitting Caisse d’Epargne, a French semicooperative bank, customers into their phishing trap.
Founded in 1818, with around 4,700 branches in France, Caisse d’Epargne is active in both the retail [...]
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Caisse d’Epargne Customers, Beware!
TrendLabs recently spotted a new phishing site spoofing CenturyLink’s secure login page from one of its anti-phishing resources.
CenturyLink, created by the merger of CenturyTel and Embarq on July 1, 2009, is a leading provider of high-quality voice, broadband, and video services through its advanced communication networks to consumers and businesses in 33 states in the [...]
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Phishing Pages Pose as Secure Login Pages
Researchers from Cyveillance are calling the recently launched “Twitter of personal service” Blippy, a “spear phisher’s dream” due to the real-time purchasing history shared by its users. Does Blippy really pose a security risk?
The PUSHDO botnet has been in the news lately as the culprit in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a variety of well-known websites. Some publications even documented this recent attack extensively. After spending some months last year studying and monitoring the PUSHDO/CUTWAIL botnet and after checking the latest samples, we can affirm that this [...]
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The PUSHDO Puzzle—DDoS or Not DDoS?
