Re: Are you getting lots of phishing spam with links to hosts at webs[.]com?

[Will Froning <will.froning () GMAIL COM>]

Hello Bob,

I'm all in for some collective pressure. We saw jimdo and webs last week.
With finals coming up (next week), we always see an increase in phishing
this time of the semester.

abuse () aus edu goes to me.

Thanks,
Will


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () usu edu> wrote:

>  support () jimdo com is fairly responsive.  My collection of all email
> received here during the month of May  includes 70 different phish message
> episodes with links to jimdo and 3 individual messages with "benign" links
> to jimdo - all in mailing list messages.
>
>
> Bob Bayn    SER 301    (435)797-2396       IT Security Team
> Office of Information Technology,     Utah State University
>      three common hazardous email scams to watch out for:
>      *1) unfamiliar transaction report from familiar business
>      2) attachment with no explanation in message body
>      3) "phishing" for your email password*
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Thorpe, Glenn [
> Glenn.Thorpe () UNTSYSTEM EDU]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2013 1:44 PM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Are you getting lots of phishing spam with
> links to hosts at webs[.]com?
>
>   Ditto here (the entire story).
>
>  We were hit pretty consistently with sites from this domain during
> March/April.  We finally started having to block those emails at our
> gateway unfortunately; now they are moving towards jimdo.
>
>
>  Glenn Thorpe III
>  Asst. Director, Information Security
> University of North Texas System
> T: 940.369.8884
> E: glenn.thorpe () untsystem edu
>
>
>
>   From: Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>
> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv <
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
> Date: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:44 AM
> To: "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
> Subject: [SECURITY] Are you getting lots of phishing spam with links to
> hosts at webs[.]com?
>
>   I get phish messages reported by my users.  There are generally several
> different ones a day that have links to a password collection web form at a
> host at webs[.]com.   I submit a complaint about the URL to the webs[.]com
> report page and they generally remove the page within a day.  But phishers
> probably get most of their passwords within the first day anyhow.
>
> Six months ago, we were being phished with google spreadsheet form pages,
> but since the Oxford fiasco, Google has placed "do not enter your password
> on Google Forms" right above the submit button.  We hardly see Google forms
> linked in phish messages anymore.
>
> Like Google, the Webs service is used for many non-hazardous purposes,
> too.  A brief attempt here to blacklist all of webs[.]com resulted in some
> complaints from people who actually use that service to host their
> personal/professional home page.  And I've seen other benign links to
> webs[.]com in newsletters and list messages.  Back on the bad side, I see
> lots of webs[.]com links in spammy posts to webpage comment boxes.
>
> Is anyone else interested in applying some group pressure to webs[.]com to
> make them more responsive and proactive about phishing abuses of their
> service?  Then the phishers would probably move to jimdo, coffeecup,
> atwebpages, mooform, survsoft or formbuddy.   BTW, ajayr@formbuddy[.]com
> is VERY responsive when a phish collection page is reported there.  He
> never sleeps.  ;-)
>
> By the way, do you all have an abuse () yourhost edu address?  I try to
> report to the host site about the compromised accounts that are used to
> send us phish messages.
>
> Bob Bayn    SER 301    (435)797-2396       IT Security Team
> Office of Information Technology,     Utah State University
>      three common hazardous email scams to watch out for:
>      *1) unfamiliar transaction report from familiar business
>      2) attachment with no explanation in message body
>      3) "phishing" for your email password*



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