Internet Identity

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  Threat of the Week: DDoS — Are Credit Unions Next?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  January 14, 2013

  Opinions divided on credit unions as targets of denial of service attacks.

• APWG Sees Phishing Spike

  October 31, 2012

  Phishing has been around for a while and it is nowhere near becoming a thing of the past, according to the latest report from the APWG.

• APWG Reports Record Spike in Phishing Websites

  By Marc Rapport  |  October 24, 2012

  Industry consortium says phishing websites proliferated in the first half of 2012 in numbers not before seen.

• DNSChanger Malware Attack Called Widespread

  By Marc Rapport  |  February 2, 2012

  Despite an FBI takedown last year, IID says at least half of all Fortune 500 companies and 27 of 55 major federal agencies still have infected gear.

• Cyber Crime 2012: IID Predicts Summer Olympic, Voting, Infrastructure as Targets

  By Andrew Corselli  |  January 4, 2012

  Online voting, the London Olympics and attacks on infrastructure highlight 2012 security predictions from Internet Identity.

• Attacks Soar as Avalanche Gang Returns

  By Marc Rapport  |  November 13, 2011

  Phishing attacks have soared as a result of the re-emergence of the Avalanche gang , according to Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash.-based Internet security specialist.

• Avalanche Returns, Malware Attacks Soar

  By Marc Rapport  |  November 3, 2011

  The Avalanche gang has re-emerged and phishing attacks have soared, according to Internet Identity, an Internet security firm.

• APWG Finds Phishers Lurk in Familiar Waters

  By Marc Rapport  |  June 15, 2011

  A survey of phishing attack targets by the Anti-Phishing Working Group found that many of them were repeat victims of hackers.

• Data Breaches Could Lead to Spear Phishing

  By Marc Rapport  |  May 16, 2011

  Targeted phishing attacks, spear phishing, could result soon from the recent massive breaches of email addresses and other information.

• Russian Hack Attack Highlighted

  By Marc Rapport  |  April 27, 2011

  A successful domain name server attack on a large Russian payment processor could be a sign of things to come, a U.S.-based online security firm warns.