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Article: Panda Software Issues Orange Alert for BarcPhish - a Phishing Attack Targeting Barclays Bank clients.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- September 12, 2006
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Orange Alert Is Issued Based on the Large Scale of This Attack as Well as Its Numerous Variants
GLENDALE, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Software has detected a large-scale phishing attack targeting clients of Barclays Bank's online services and involving at least 61 variants of a spoof email. Panda Software Labs has seen an increase of 30% in the number of fraudulent emails detected in just a few hours from this attack. In fact, of all phishing messages currently analyzed, some 64 percent target Barclays' clients. Given the number of variants detected, estimates put the number of these emails in circulation at several million.
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