Re: phishing attacks against ISPs (also with Google translations)

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nuking israel would solve this spam issue and quite a few other
global issues.  i figure myself a humanist and would welcome any
other ideas but it seems that this new spam issue is forcing the
rest of the world to take drastic issues.  who is with me?

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:40:06 -0400 Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
wrote:
> In this email message I'd like to discuss two subjects:
> a. Phishing against ISPs.
> b. Phishing in different languages against ISPs as soon as Google
> adds a
> new translation module.
>
> [My apologies to those who receive this email more than once. I am
> approaching several different industries on this matter]
>
> In the past few weeks there has been an increasing number of
> phishing
> attacks against clients of Israeli ISPs. I've only seen a few of
> these,
> but the local ISPs confirm it's happening across the board.
>
> In all these cases, the phishing email is in Hebrew.
>
> While we have seen ISP phishing and Hebrew phishing before, these
> attacks started when Google added translation into Hebrew.
>
> Is this a trend? Have other countries (or populations) been
> targeted
> when Google added a translation module for more languages?
>
> Notes:
> a. Some Israeli ISPs emailed their clients warning against such
> attacks.
> Saying they'd never ask for their password, etc.
>
> b. While I was certainly heavily involved with phishing originally
> and
> even started the first coordination group to deal with the issue,
> I am
> somewhat removed from it now, dealing more with phishing/banking
> Trojan
> horses.
> Can anyone educate me as to how often ISPs get phished, if at all?
>
> c. If you get phished, what strategies if any have you taken to
> prevent
> the attacks/respond to them/educate your clients? What worked?
>
> d. I wonder if these translation misuses could eventually
> translate into
> some intelligence we will see in Google security reports, such as
> on
> malware.
>
>       Gadi.
>
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