Peaches Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 FTP Credentials Phished from WebmastersCustomers of almost one hundred hosting providers targetedCybercrooks are on the hunt for FTP credentials with a new phishing campaign, which targets the customers of many hosting companies. Under the pretext of a system maintenance, the rogue emails direct unsuspecting webmasters to phishing pages.According to Gary Warner, director of research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, over 90 popular shared Web hosting services have been abused through these automatically generated emails. The message is identical in all of them, but the named company differs."Due to the system maintenance, we kindly ask you to take a few minutes to confirm your FTP details. Please confirm your FTP details by using the link below," the emails read. The included link is of the form http://cpanel.[domain_name]/scripts/cpanel-ftp-confirmation.php?session=######, where the domain names are the likes of hostgator.com, resellerclub.com, godaddy.com or even yahoo.com.Full story at Softpedia - http://news.softpedia.com/news/FTP-Credent...rs-129048.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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