Tag Archive for: phish

Belarusia Phish Fry? Feds Break Online Tax-Refund Scam – Forbes (blog)

Apparently, yet another variation on the growing Phishing scams that trap increasing numbers of naive Internet users. After taxpayers input and uploaded their tax information, conspirators located in Belarus collected the data and altered the returns to …
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To defeat phishing, Energy learns to phish – GCN.com

The Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received more than 500 e-mails in April that appeared to be from the lab’s benefits department and contained a link for more information. The link which actually downloaded malicious code when users …
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FBI Nets 100 People In Phishing Ring – WebProNews

The FBI has charged nearly 100 people in the U.S. and Egypt as part of “Operation Phish Phry,” one of the largest cyber fraud phishing investigations ever.

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