Sunday, April 15, 2012

Phishing under the guise of an online store


Phishing spam mailing with a call to verify personal details to PayPal or eBay is irrelevant. Recently, Internet users have started receiving letters with a proposal to update the accounts online from the iTunes Store.





Recall that the online store digital content, the corporation owned by Apple, ranked first in terms of music sales in the U.S.. In the letters that tell about the problems with an account that offered the recipients follow the link, enter your information about yourself and your credit card. Fraudsters adresovyvat unsuspecting users to a fake web page that stated the need for bank details to facilitate the purchase of files, reports CyberSecurity.





' We always fix these attacks against financial brands such as PayPal, eBay or Citibank, but for Apple, this method is fixed for the first time ', - said Andrew Lokart (Andrew Lochart) of the company Proofpoint, discovered the ' hornblende '. ' Apparently, the perpetrators were of the opinion that the presence of Apple in the Internet is large enough to be able to carry out attacks against the invisible part of the company's client base '.





Actually, Russian brands have also become victims of online fraud. Thus, in March 2008 for users who allegedly received the prize from online criminals lured exchanger RoboXchange personal data, and in April of Internet users to pay for the delivery of the prizes offered by Mail. ru, allegedly carried out by 'EMS Russian Post ...



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