Here’s a new kind of cellphone scam (via Mike Masnick of Techdirt, writing in TheFeature): WAPjacking (well that’s what he calls it, and I like it): Taking a page from the still popular redialer scam on PCs – where a secretive trojan tries to disconnect your modem (assuming you’re using dialup) and reconnect you secretly … Read more
Seems like the big anti-virus boys are waking up to Korgo, the ‘phishing worm’ that F-Secure was warning about a few days ago. Symantec have just issued an advisory upgrading W32.Korgo.F, a new variant of the worm, from a Level 2 to a Level 3 threat. As Symantec says, W32.Korgo.F is a worm that attempts … Read more
More on the phishing worm I mentioned in a previous post. Mikko H. Hypponen of F-Secure has passed on a little more information. He says it’s “pretty big, but still far away from outbreaks like Sasser or Mydoom”. So far “at least 50,000 machines are infected worldwide, possibly more”. He says Korgo does “specifically target … Read more
Welcome to the phishing worm. Korgo, a new worm that appeared last week, scans for random machines to infect and attack, using a vulnerability in Windows called the LSASS flaw which was discovered in April, according to Internet Week. Korgo, also known as Padobot, then sits on users’ computers waiting for instructions from home. Most such … Read more
I was just reading the new publication put out by the U.S. Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council on “Lessons Learned by Consumers, Financial Sector Firms, and Government Agencies during the Recent Rise of Phishing Attacks” (PDF here, page on Treasury website here). A rather wordy title for … Read more