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Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:45:43 GMT
Via InfoWorld. [snip] Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of thousands of stolen identities from 125 countries that they believe were collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is calling Trojan-Phisher-Rebery. The FBI is investigating the stolen information, which was discovered on a password-protected FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server in the U.S. and is believed to be connected to a Trojan horse that is installed from the Web site teens7(dot)com. The information, organized by country, includes names, phone numbers, social security numbers, and user log-ins and passwords for tens of thousands of Web sites, according to information provided to InfoWorld by Webroot. The discovery is just the latest evidence of rampant identity theft by online criminals who use malicious Web sites, common software vulnerabilities and keylogging software to harvest information from unsuspecting Web surfers. [snip] More: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/09/78139_HNTrojanrebery_1.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Dude VanWinkle (May 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Drsolly (May 10)
- Re: [privacy] Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Ken Dyke (May 10)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
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