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Current Activity - Video Game Phishing
From: Current Activity <us-cert () us-cert gov>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:26:52 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 US-CERT Current Activity Video Game Phishing Original release date: April 29, 2011 at 10:15 am Last revised: April 29, 2011 at 10:15 am US-CERT is aware of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service. In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE. Games are products of third party developers that are playable on Xbox LIVE and other gaming systems. Microsoft has posted a service alert on the Xbox LIVE status page regarding this issue. US-CERT encourages users to take the following measures to protect themselves from these types of phishing attacks: * Refer to the Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams (pdf) document for more information on avoiding email scams. * Refer to the Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks document for more information on social engineering attacks. Relevant Url(s): <http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-014.html> <http://support.xbox.com/en-us/Pages/xbox-live/xbox-live-status.aspx> <http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/emailscams_0905.pdf> ==== This entry is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#video_game_phishing -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTbrKlT6pPKYJORa3AQLnrQf5AR5YPBa5UlKlil3AjY/AhBDR3Xg+nzyx /XTQyg6fJut+kK0rINw3m5MhlkxJazJB3zBFxHjvEYckm/rKbjb63uSMsTXMj/Ci THhF1Ptj783sqn/NTTsVi5jix/yuFFKAICDzrursP53LkjO1jZXGo5xn6Mq+r7Kp os5klbTXazzFwd0cUfKp0Rc+xXaKpAET6uy2Z8QWIVtSpg8zH8t9gly8WOAH1b94 pYUFRDGcB1qL4ljcTK/Tfu4T5+bIEoJWdN1ymKtfxXtyv8RiW+4G1u09/9sHWtlw ln2NorjDlHa91VGCmg3rKMRvBkzooumWkISlpcMgdgQVO2bDI/pIlA== =7pLi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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