Rain of phish hits UK

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Aug 3, 2006

Single botnet responsible for 8 million phishing emails.

A single botnet has unleashed over 8 million phishing emails on UK targets over the last few days, according to mail security firm BlackSpider. The mails, sent from a zombie net of up to 20,000 machines, target users of UK online banks NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland.

VB's spam watchers have also noted August 2nd as having been a big day for other phishing scams, including some aimed at users of perennial targets eBay and PayPal, and of course the classic 419.

Posted on 03 August 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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