EBay, PayPal Year's Top Phishing Targets: 62% of All Spoofs

[mandy]

eBay and its associated PayPal payment service were the two biggest targets of phishers during 2005, a U.K.-based Web performance and anti-phishing firm said this weekend.

Of the more than 41,000 phishing URLs that Netcraft confirmed in 2005, 62 percent targeted eBay and PayPal.

Many were what Netcraft dubbed "insta-spoofs," bogus URLs hosted from free sites or compromised machines, the latter often courtesy of a botnet. "Many of these spoof sites bear identical structures and file titles, suggesting deployment via kits that can be rapidly unpacked on a new machine," Netcraft stated in an online brief.

full article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/show...=175800790

[mandy]

96% of all UK spoof emails in December 2005 targetted eBay users:

Popular online auction site eBay was the target for 96 per cent of all UK phishing attacks in December, according to security specialists Fortinet.

Fraudsters seem to have anticipated the Christmas rush to use eBay to buy presents - and sell unwanted ones - and are targeting eBay users in a widespread assault.

full article: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/214794...y-december

The article also reports that 1 in 20 MMS messages sent by mobile phone were infected with the Commwarrior virus in December.

[regic]

Update: Users of PayPal and eBay are the main target of more than 75 percent of all email phising

Users of PayPal and eBay are the main target of more than 75 percent of all email phising, revealed a recent research by information technology security firm Sophos. Phising emails point recipients to a bogus website which look like the real PayPal or the eBay site...

PayPal users have been most at risk, revealed experts at SophosLabs, which scanned all phishing email messages received in the company's global network of spam traps during 2006. Sophos said 54.3 percent phising emails have been directed to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most common targets, at 20.9%, were users of the eBay online auction service, the study finds...

According to experts phishing attacks are slowing down and are more becoming targeted on specific victims like PayPal and eBay users, and customers at specific financial service institutions...

full article: http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/pse...apore.html

[sneakymagenta]

All of the phishing emails I get are PP and EBay

[xppman]

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All of the phishing emails I get are PP and EBay
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Me too.

[amy]

Me three.

[cranky_hippie]

Me four. 

[iron_chick]

Maybe 10 percent of mine (OM, probably more like 5%) are from various banks, credit card companies, etc.

[stardust]

My first 3 ecrater *sales* were some kind of phishing.  Not sure what, but not legit.  Also have gotten CapitalOne cc phishers. 

Last week, when I listed a few things on the 20cent days, I instantly started getting the pp and ebay spoofs.  When I don't list, I only get the spoofs occasionally.  If there's bidding, my bidders get fake 2nd Chance Offers -- which is the scummiest spoof of them all!!