Virginia Tech Incident and Phishing Attacks
It has been reported that malicious users are taking advantage of the recent Virginia Tech incident and have launched phishing attacks. They have created fraudulent domains for the purpose of phishing attacks. The phishers are using these domains to set up the phishing websites and further circulating phishing email asking the user for personal and financial information to collect donation for the virginia tragedy sufferers. They may also spread malicious programs through these domains.
A number of fraudulent domains looks alike a legitimate charity related to Virginia Tech Tragedy have been reported to be registered over the internet. These domains are
vatechshooting.com,vatechshooting.net, vatechshooting.org vatechshooting.info,vatechshooting.us,vatechshooting.biz,
vtshooting.com
vtshooting.info,vatechmassacre.com,vatechmassacre.net, vatechmassacre.info,vatechmassacre.biz,vtmassacre.com
vtmassacre.net,vtmassacre.org
,vtmassacre.info, virginiatechrampage.com
vatechrampage.com,vtrampage.com,
virginiatechmurders.com,
virginiatechmurders.net,virginiatechmurders.org,
virginiatechmurders.info,virginiatechmurders.us
,vatechmurders.com,vtmurders.com,hokieshootings.com,
hokiemassacre.com
Users are advised to implement the following countermeasues to protect themselves from any phishing attacks:
* Keep up-to-date patches and fixes on the operating system
and application software.
* Keep up-to-date Antivirus and Antispyware signatures.
* Do not visit untrusted websites.
* Exercise caution while opening unsolicited emails and do
not click on a link embedded within
* Do not disclose any financial or personal information
being asked in unsolicited email.
* Contact your financial institution/ Bank for the authentication
of received e-mail.
In case your financial or personal information is compromised, immediately contact your financial institution/ Bank and report the same.
References
http://www.isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2652
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#phish
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