Security experts are warning that automated software and compromised computers used to pass on malicious e-mail or host rogue, information-stealing Web sites are feeding fraud on the Internet. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of security experts looking to analyze the online fraud known as phishing — whereby users are directed via e-mail to malicious sites that steal personal and financial information — highlighted the issue in a report this week.
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Report Shows Uptick in Automated Phishing
Posted by: Jay Lyman November 24, 2004 10:34 AMSecurity experts are warning that automated software and compromised computers used to pass on malicious e-mail or host rogue, information-stealing Web sites are feeding fraud on the Internet. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of security experts looking to analyze the online fraud known as phishing — whereby users are directed via e-mail to malicious sites that steal personal and financial information — highlighted the issue in a report this week.