March 27, 2009

123-reg targeted by phishers

by Brian Turner

123-reg, one of the UK’s largest domain registration services, joins the unenviable list of targets that includes eBay, Paypal, high street banks and Google Adwords as the latest target of phishing attacks.

The randomly emailed message claims to be from 123-reg, asking the recipient to update their payment details, but does not mention the user by name, and links instead to a subdomain on mxmfb.com.

As with all phishing attacks, just bin them, and if you’re unsure as to whether an email is legitimate or not, login directly to the site via a browser window, rather than email link.

Of course, the giveaway is always the fact that phishing emails usually do not name the person they are addressed to, due to their random nature, and the fact that they do not have your personal contact details in the first place, instead relying on mass emails to ensure some fraction of the volume sent arrives at potential targets.

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