Posts Tagged phishing
RSA’s April Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on the changes in Phishing tactics
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 13/05/2013
Phishing still stands as the top online threat impacting both consumers and the businesses that serve them online. In 2012, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month identified by RSA. The impact of phishing on the global economy has been quite significant: RSA estimates that worldwide losses from phishing attacks cost […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on Email and Identity takeover
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2013
RSA’s March 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing attacks are notorious for their potential harm to online banking and credit card users who may fall prey to phishers looking to steal information from them. Compromised credentials are then typically sold in […]
RSA’s February Online Fraud Report 2013 including an update on Phishing activity
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 22/02/2013
RSA’s February 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing still stands as the top online threat impacting both consumers and the businesses that serve them online. In 2012, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month identified by RSA. […]
RSA’s January Online Fraud Report 2013 including an excellent summary of Phishing in 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 30/01/2013
RSA’s January 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. The total number of phishing attacks launched in 2012 was 59% higher than 2011 It appears that phishing has been able to set yet another record year in attack volumes, with global losses from […]
RSA’s December Online Fraud Report 2012 including an excellent piece on Ransomware
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 03/01/2013
RSA’s December Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of their report is below. Ransomware is a type of Trojan/malware that can lock files on an infected machine and restrict access to the computer unless the user pays a “ransom” for the restrictions to be removed. Infection campaigns and methods […]
RSA’s November Online Fraud Report 2012 including advice on avoiding fraud
Posted by brianfpennington in PCI DSS Compliance on 31/12/2012
RSA’s November Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of their report is below. In 2011, RSA’s e-commerce authentication technology was used by many of the top card issuers around the globe to protect nearly a half a billion e-commerce transactions and their statistics for 2011 (2012 will be posted when available) […]
RSA’s October Online Fraud Report 2012 including summary of Phishing and Social Networking
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 25/10/2012
In their October Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, a summary is below Following global trends in online threats, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Centre continues to see large increases in phishing attacks. Looking back to the first half of 2012 and comparing it with the second half of 2011, RSA reported […]
RSA’s September Online Fraud Report 2012 including a summary of rogue mobile apps
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 24/09/2012
In their September Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, a summary is below Threats and risks in today’s mobile app marketplace In terms of mobile security, some mobile application (app) platforms, such as Apple’s AppStore, are known to employ strict rules to which application developers are obliged to adhere. Other mobile app platforms, […]
Advance malware threats are growing at an alarming rate
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 30/08/2012
FireEye have published their Advanced Threat Report for the first half of 2012. The results are based on their knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threats and the rest of the malware market. Their key findings are: Organizations are seeing a massive increase in advanced malware that is bypassing their traditional security defenses. The patterns of attack volumes […]
RSA’s August Online Fraud Report 2012 including a summary of Fraud as a Service (FaaS)
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/08/2012
In their August Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, a summary is below. A five-year retrospect on Fraud as a Service (FaaS) reveals that the types of services sold today have changed very little; the more noticeable changes came in the shape of scalability, service relevancy, higher availability, better deals, customer […]
Counting the cost of e-crime to retailers. Actually it’s £205.4 million a year.
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 23/08/2012
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has released the findings of their first e-crime study. The study is based on responses to a quantitative survey conducted between April and May 2012. Respondents were members of the BRC drawn from a selection of key retailing types including supermarkets, department stores, fashion, health and beauty and mixed retail. The retailers questioned constitute […]
RSA’s July Online Fraud Report 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/07/2012
In their July Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. Phishing attacks continue to increase around the world. In the first half of 2012, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center identified 195,487 unique phishing attacks, an increase of 19% as compared to the second half of 2011. Global fraud losses […]
RSA’s June Online Fraud Report 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 20/06/2012
In their June Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. RSA researchers have been following Ransomware campaigns and Ransomware Trojan attack waves and have recently analyzed a new variant that holds infected PCs hostage until their owners make a €100 payment to the botmaster. Ransomware is the type of malware that can infect a […]
RSA’s April Online Fraud Report 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 04/05/2012
In their April Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. As well as the usual interesting statistics on fraudulent activity this report sheds light on the changes to the Citadel Trojan. Citadel Trojan hooks system processes to isolate bots from AV and security. The Citadel Trojan was first introduced […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2012
In their March Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. As well as the usual interesting statistics on fraudulent activity this report sheds light on the changes to the Zeus and Citadel Trojans as cybercriminals “migrating” from one Trojan botnet to another. FraudAction Research Lab has recently analyzed a Zeus 2.1.0.1 variant downloading […]
RSA’s February Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 12/03/2012
In their February Online Fraud Report RSA shed light on one of the latest Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS) offerings to be purveyed in the criminal underground, a new release of the “Darkness”, aka “Optima,” DDoS bot crimeware; a commercially available toolkit that not only allows fraudsters to launch DDoS attacks at a target of their choice, but which has also […]
RSA’s January 2012 Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/01/2012
Below is a summary of RSA’s Jnauary 2012 Online Fraud Report:- PHISHING IS A NUMBERS GAME In 2011, approximately one in every 300 emails circulating the web was deemed to contain elements pointing to phishing. Most phishing content targeted the public sector, which was followed by the SME business sector. Compared with the total numbers of phishing […]
RSA’s November Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 07/12/2011
Below is a summary of RSA’s November Online Fraud Report:- The humble beginnings of phishing The term ‘phishing’ was coined in 1996 by hackers who managed to steal America Online (AOL) accounts by coaxing username and passwords from unsuspecting users. At the time, hacked accounts were dubbed ‘phish’; within a year, ‘phish’ was actively being traded between […]
RSA’S October Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/11/2011
Below is a summary of RSA’s October Online Fraud Report. October was Cyber Security Awareness Month. A public relations effort made by several US-based government bodies to increase security-literacy across the tiers that make up our digital society. By encouraging each and every Internet user to “Stop, Think, Connect,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the […]
RSA’s September Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/11/2011
At bit of a catch up on the excellent RSA Fraud Reports. The results from their September report are below. At the bottom of the post is the August Report Summary link. Phishing Attacks per Month The number of phishing attacks identified by RSA in August increased by 7%, setting a new all-time high of 26,907 attacks. […]
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