During a three-month study of its global malware database, Panda Security found on average 57,000 new Web sites created each week that exploit approximately 375 high-profile brand names worldwide at any time.
The study found that 375 high-profile brand names were being used for the fraud, with eBay (23%) and Western Union (21%) together comprising 44% of all the malicious Web sites discovered. Other leading exploited brands were: Visa, United Services Automobile Association, HSBC, Amazon, Bank of America, PayPal, and Internal Revenue Service.
Identifying an attack
– egregious misspellings, poor grammar, and bad punctuation.
– web addresses don’t have “https” that banks and other firms use.
The most important thing to remember is to not click links in unsolicited or suspicious e-mails…Read more
