"Phishing" Attacks to Increase

neutron_p writes "The number of people who succumb to identity thieves' "phishing" e-mails could go way up if immediate action isn't taken to preempt the next generation of attacks, according to an Indiana University School of Informatics researcher. "Phishing" e-mails appear to be sent by legitimate businesses, but are actually created and distributed by villains who are after your personal information. They describe some thieves' tricks. One kind of context-aware attack tricks eBay bidders into giving out identifying information by leading bidders to believe they've won an auction. In another kind of context-aware attack, a potential victim might receive a message from a known person -- for example, a friend or loved one - asking him or her to go to a Web site to update banking information."

Comments

Happening already from Hacked Verizon servers

[Billly Gates]

I get email all the time in my inbox with things like "undeliverable: subject: Get a free loan". I tried a different email account and within 24 hours I began to recieve more undeliverable spam messages.

My parents also use Verizon and have the same problem.

My guess is a spammer cracked their email server and he just phises real email addresses to hide his identity.

Nice.

Whats scary is Verizon wont even acknowledge the problem and its been going on for months. I eventually left them. My guess is they are afraid of being sued.