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Cyber scammers all over the globe are exploiting the news of the Louisiana hurricane by running spamming and phishing sites with domains that appear to be from legitimate charities asking for donations for disaster victims.
Security researchers first became aware of initial Gustav-related domain names this past Tuesday. Meanwhile, Hurricane Hanna, which developed near the Bahamas on Monday, is also expected to come with a barrage of fraudulent charity and news Websites exploiting the disaster and generous sympathizers.
In reality of course, many of these sites are linked to malicious pages hosting malware and botnets or sponsored by organized crime. Users visit the malicious sites and enter credit card information, thinking that they're donating to a respectable charity. In actuality, they are probably sending their sensitive financial data right into the waiting hands of cybercriminals.
Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center noted in a SANS Institute blog post that many of the registered domain names related to hurricanes Gustav and Hanna are either in "for sale" status, or associated with IP addresses known to host spyware, Trojans and other malicious software.
Sachs also found that in anticipation of upcoming natural disasters, one entrepreneurial soul has even registered the domain names of future hurricanes for the next several years, which can be found on the NOAA Web site. After all, why wait for disaster to strike when you can strike it first?
However, in the near future, phishers will have plenty of material on which to base their scams. A Reuters report said that Atlantic hurricane activity will continue to be well above average in September with a total of four expected hurricanes, two of which are anticipated to be major storms with winds in excess of 111 mph.
Security experts encourage users not to open links or visit Web pages of unknown charities capitalizing on the disaster. In addition, users should also apply content filtering services to protect themselves against possible attack.
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