Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Employers and jobseekers have been alerted to a new phishing scam targeting Monster.com users.
Web security analysts have announced that members are being tricked into entering personal details into websites masquerading as the recruitment portal in order to commit identity theft and fraud.
According to SC magazine, network security researchers have described this as a "very big lure".
It appears that the phishing scam is hosted on a UK domain, with victims redirected to a Turkish botnet server.
Gartner researcher Avivah Litan said that website developers need to be more proactive in order to make sure that users remain protected in the face of proliferating phishing attacks.
"Companies like Monster need to make sure they have the security on their end to prevent the information from being stolen," she said.
According to UK fraud prevention service CIFAS, the number of phishing scams in the country has increased 182 per cent in the second quarter of 2008 when compared to last year's figures.
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