Phishers angling for Web site administrators

Started by avenueb, December 07, 2009, 09:35:26 AM

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avenueb

Phishers angling for Web site administrators

Scam e-mail artists have launched a massive campaign to trick webmasters into giving up the credentials needed to administer their Web sites, targeting site owners at more than 90 online hosting providers. Experts say the attackers are attempting to build a distributed network of hacked sites through which to distribute their malicious software.

The spam e-mails arrive addressed to users of some of the top Web hosting firms, from hostgator.com to yahoo.com and 50webs.com, and bear the same basic message:

"Due to the system maintenance, we kindly ask you to take a few minutes to confirm your FTP details." Recipients who click the included link are brought to a Web site made to look like a cPanel page (cPanel is a widely used Web site administration software package). People who fall for the scam and provide their credentials are then forwarded on to the actual site of the Web hosting company named in the body and subject line of the scam e-mail.

more here-

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/12/phishers_angling_for_web_site.html

Jason

They just keep getting trickier and trickier, huh?  :(