Archive for December, 2008
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IRS tips make filing returns less taxing
San Angelo Standard Times, tx - Dec 28, 2008 A bank record includes canceled checks, bank or credit union statements and credit card statements. E-file is the safe, accurate way for taxpayers to … |
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Attorney General warns of credit union scam
Bizjournals.com, NC - Dec 5, 2008 Attorney General Gary King’s office warns this is a “phishing” scam and anyone who receives such a call should not respond. They should contact their … Court backs effort to block coyote payments Arizona Republic all 10 news articles |
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Regulators Issue New ID Theft Awareness Brochure
BankInfoSecurity.com, NJ - Dec 24, 2008 … National Credit Union Administration and Office of Thrift Supervision. The brochure's main focus is on phishing, detailing how the ploy works and how to … Federal Financial Regulators Issue Revised Identity Theft Brochure Media Newswire (press release) Regulators' ID theft-awareness brochure available SmartBrief Publication offers tips on preventing identity theft Mid Columbia Tri City Herald Shreveport Times all 6 news articles |
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Phishing E-mail Spoofing ICU’s Name
SPAMfighter News, Denmark - Dec 23, 2008 Another phishing e-mail that mentioned the name of ICU (Indianhead Credit Union), Spooner (Wisconsin USA) in the sender's address hit the Washburn County on … |
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Attorney General warns of scam text messages
DeSoto Times Today, MS - Dec 24, 2008 A scam text message has apparently been circulating that targets area credit union members, Attorney General Jim Hood announced early Wednesday. … |
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How To Protect Yourself From Online Identity Theft
PWO, France - Dec 27, 2008 Be aware of "phishing". Phishing is a strategy for stealing identities online. It is one of the easiest ways for a thief to steal your identity, … |
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Phishing, vishing, SMishing
Examiner.com - Dec 26, 2008 Just to be safe, look up and contact the published phone number, email or address of the bank or credit union before responding to any message, … |
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Holiday season busy one for phishers
Times of the Internet, Ohio - Dec 17, 2008 There's a component of cybercrime that is seasonally variable, Michael Barrett, chief information officer at PayPal, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. … |
Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the download site under china.com has been compromised. Malicious code has been inserted into the homepage of the site. This code has been changing over the course of last week, leading to different exploit sites. The exploits target Yahoo! Messenger, Adobe Flash, Real Player, and MS office.
China.com is one of the largest and highly-reputed portal sites in China, providing broad services including social networking, forums, online TV, news feeds and so on.
At the time of posting this alert, the site is clean. Websense will continue to monitor this threat.
Screenshot of the infected site:
Screenshot of malicious code:
Screenshot of malicious code from last week:
Websense Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.
On Monday, the Kyle family and the O’Hearn family, all members of Dort FCU in Flint, Mich., were taken by limousine to see what the credit union had given them for Christmas.