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CastleCops.com is under attack yet again. That's what you get for fighting crime. This all-volunteer cybercrime-fighting group has recently been subjected to three weeks of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. The trap wasn't too successful though. Now they have a new evil to contend with. Phishing. The bad guys have switched tactics and started attacking regular people by sending them phishing emails to steal their PayPal information (see our article on how to avoid getting scammed by phishing mails posted earlier today). "Donations" were sent in varying amounts to what appeared to be a CastleCops address. "Clearly someone's got it in for us and has been paying someone to try and take us out, but we're bringing discredit on the botnet masters because they're not succeeding," said Paul Laudanski, co-founder of CastleCops. The group is currently working with the FBI to find the source of this malicious attempt to discredit the group. Find out more here. |
Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007.
Posted by fiona.
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