Thursday, August 04, 2005

Phishers on rocking spree after ATMs its eBay

A flaw has been discovered on eBay's Web site that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.
In recent article Phishers hack Ebay at PCWorld.com, the end result has been told that users will be giving away information and allowing phishers to hijack their accounts, either as a way of laundering money or for launching fake auctions.

In another article Phishers cash in on ATM cards, Phishing attacks have led to an estimated $2.75 billion in losses related to ATM and debit cards over the past 12 months, according to a new Gartner report.
Phishing is on a steep rise and hot buzzword in security world. While the worms/viruses attack has gone down, this is going up.

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