Todays’ target for a phishing attack is Just Eat Irish users will be enticed to follow the links in emails purportedly from the site which is offering a €50 bounty for completing a survey: Of course for this to work for the phisher they need to get their pay day. As with other attacks we’ve […]
Electric Ireland customers are being targetted in a phishing attack The attack uses the ploy of a refund being granted to them to entice them to login to the fake website. Of course nobody’s really interested in your electricity bill. What they’re really after is your credit card details, so once you’ve been duped into […]
Irish Water has been targetted in an email phishing scam sent to Irish internet users this morning. The email, in common with most phishing scams, uses elements from the Irish Water corporate branding, but is rather badly worded: If you click on the hyperlink in the email you will end up at what appears to […]
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released their Global Phishing Survey for the first 6 months of 2014 (PDF). According to their research Apple is the most phished brand on the ‘net: Apple’s brand and associated marques, such as iTunes and iPad, eclipsed perennial phishing target favorite PayPal with the computing device manufacturer enduring 21,951 of […]
dearest one, I than good for sedning you to me and i pray this enrteprise will be to our mutual benfiot … We’ve all got them: scam emails, 419 Nigerian frauds (although they come from other countries as well), phishing, advance fee fraud. One of my Facebook friends recently shared an email he had received, remarking that, if it […]
