Twitter will shorten some links sent through the service to twt.tl
Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
A Twitter phishing attack has hit several prominent British Twitter users
The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.
Cyber criminals take advantage of Haiti Appeal for spam and phishing attacks
There was no let up in spamming and phishing activities last month even as the entire world watched with sympathy the tragedy in Haiti. To add to the sorrow behind the devastating earthquake on 12 January, cyber criminals took advantage of the tragedy to launch spamming and phishing attacks.
The phishing scheme resulted in losses of up to €3 million from companies
A clever phishing scheme launched last week may have stolen more than €3 million (US$4.1 million) worth of carbon emission permits from companies.
As banks better detect and fight fraud, the Trojan horses that criminals devise become even more sophisticated
Criminals today can hijack active online banking sessions, and new Trojan horses can fake the account balance to prevent victims from seeing that they're being defrauded.
Fake message reads 'hi. this you on here'
Twitter warned users Tuesday of a new phishing scam on the social networking site.
One group responsible for 25 per cent of all phishing attacks in first six months of this year
A single group of attackers accounted for a quarter of all phishing in the first half of this year, according to a new study.
Operation Phish Phry is just the tip of the iceberg
The massive phishing scam broken up by US federal authorities this week is only a hint at what many say is an insidious and growing problem on the Internet.
Was phishing really how all these stolen e-mail passwords were obtained?
In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards.
Could botnets, keylogging be to blame for password leaks?
One researcher isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack.
Robert Mueller was recently targeted by phishers
The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt.
Downplays scam, says 'small number' of accounts compromised
Google confirmed today that passwords for its free Gmail online e-mail service had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed the phishing attack as involving just a "small number" of accounts.
BBC reports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and others targeted by industry-wide attack
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.
Denies security breach of the service; phishing expert calls it 'one of the biggest' ever
Microsoft today confirmed that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account usernames and passwords had leaked to the Internet, but said the credentials were "likely" stolen in a phishing attack.
A third Romanian was convicted earlier this year
The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam.
