Operation Phish Phry – How hackers drain your bank accounts

The New York Times is reporting that the FBI indicted 53 people in three states and began arresting them for phishing users' bank credentials and stealing their funds from Bank of America and Wells Fargo bank.

The operation was dubbed "Operation Phish Phry" by the FBI and included 47 individuals in Egypt as unindicted co-conspirators. This was a large banking fraud operation which was conducted at several levels.

It would appear that the phishing was initiated by the Egyptians, who tricked users into supplying their credentials through a phishing expedition. They cast a wide net by choosing banks that have a nationwide presence to maximize their ability to both collect valid logins and find people willing to assist in the fraud at local banks.

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Ryan Dunn’s last words lead to a Facebook scam

Ryan Dunn, a star of the TV show Jackass, died last week after a high speed car crash. And within hours, ghoulish scammers were taking advantage of the daredevil's demise by claiming to have exclusive videos of the accident in links that spread via Facebook.

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Study reveals scale of fake tech support call scams

Have you received a phone call at your home from someone claiming to be working for Microsoft or your ISP? Did they claim that they weren't selling anything, but instead wanted to help you clean up a malware infection on your PC?

Well, if so, beware.

More and more people are reporting that they have received bogus support calls out of the blue, offering a free security check of their home PC.

The problem is that the free security check often involves the caller asking you to install software on your PC that gives them remote access to your computer - opening the door for malware infection, data loss and fake anti-virus scams.

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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they've started to imitate Microsoft Update.

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Gift Card From Your Friend? Beware Spammed Out Malware Attack

Cybercriminals are attempting to infect email users by spamming out a malware attack, posing as a gift card from a friend. SophosLabs has intercepted a malicious spam campaign that has hit inboxes around the world, with a Trojan horse attached as a .PIF file.

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More Mac Malware – Top Tips For Avoiding Infection

More Mac scareware appeared overnight, with the cybercrooks following the same sort of strategy which has worked so well on Windows: regularly change the look and feel of the fake anti-virus software; use legitimate-sounding brand names (or steal genuine product names); stick to a price-point between $50 and $100; keep the fear factor high; but keep the core programming very similar so development costs are negligible.

Scareware, or fake anti-virus, is fake security software which pretends to find dangerous security threats - such as viruses - on your computer. The initial scan is free, but if you want to clean up the fraudulently-reported "threats", you need to pay.

Once you've paid, the scareware stops lying to you about the non-existent threats, as though it really did clean them up. This means that many victims of this sort of fraud don't even realise they've been duped. Until next time.

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How to stop your Gmail account being hacked

As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked.

This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page.

Victims would believe that they had been sent an attachment, click on the link, and be greeted by what appeared to be Gmail's login screen. Before you knew it, your Gmail username and password could be in the hands of unauthorised parties.

So, what steps should you take to reduce the chances of your Gmail account being hacked?

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How to stop your Gmail account being hacked

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Free Subway gift card spam spreading on Facebook

We've received a number of questions from Facebook fans of Sophos regarding messages that have spread across the social network claiming to offer a $100 gift card for the Subway sandwich chain.

Avoid these "offers" as they're unlikely to ever prove fruitful, and may result in you handing over a wealth of data about yourself to complete strangers. When you agree to post a message about such gift cards on Facebook, you are putting your online friends at risk of having their privacy damaged too.

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Facebook Video Scam Puts Malware on Mac and Windows

Facebook seems unable to stop scammers from circulating malicious Web links that install fake antivirus software on victims' computers.
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