According to Symantec’s latest State of Spam and Phishing report , scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded since the inception of the report. For comparison, these types of spam represented only 10 percent of total spam a year ago.

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Beware of Targeted Scams and Phishing Attacks!

Phishing and its effects–namely, identity fraud –continue to grow. Unfortunately, it is now easier than ever to carry out these kinds of attacks

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Phishing Made “Super”

A new Twitter worm is making the rounds. If you receive a direct message from a “friend” that contains the following message: “This you????” It is likely malicious. Clicking the link, http://twitter.login.{BLOCKED}home.org/login/, will redirect you to a sub page of the said domain

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A New Twitter Worm Is Making the Rounds

Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger (see Figure 1), a free blog publishing tool from Google .

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Phishers Target “Bloggers”

Here’s some news! Starting from this month, we will be combining the monthly State of Spam and State of Phishing reports into one: State of Spam & Phishing Report .

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: February 2010

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 United States. It is the currently the fourth largest local exchange telephone company in the United States in terms of access lines

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Phishing Pages Pose as Secure Login Pages

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 and private banking segments

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Caisse d’Epargne Customers, Beware!

Symantec has observed a new trend in phishing in which the phishing Web page contains pornographic content.

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Phishing Using Pornographic Content as Bait

The Internet has grown to become a massive venue for information exchange that everything a user encounters on the Web may potentially be treacherous, including supposed antivirus software. Trend Micro Threat Encyclopedia has, so far, over 2,000 entries related to FAKEAV . Many naive users still fall for the age-old ruse that rogue antivirus peddlers use— scareware tactics —to scam victims into believing that their systems have fallen prey to malware infections.

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Much Ado About FAKEAV

I recently made up two nonsensical domain names — eixpay.com and eixpay.com —can you spot the difference between them?

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Can IDN Use Open a Can of Unicode Worms?