Make a Date With Fraud 61
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "Netcraft is reporting that criminals are mounting massive phishing attacks through online dating sites. The scams are numerous and target multiple sites. Actual methods range from blackmail to 419-style scams. Characteristically, fraudsters hijack an existing account on one of the services, then use that as a portal to deliver a PHP script to compromise the site. 'The latest attacks make use of a phishing kit which contains hundreds of PHP scripts, configured to send stolen credentials to more than 300 distinct email addresses.' The BBC offers additional insights ."
In other words: Date-site security sucks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Nothing surprising here, the date sites are just attacked because the operators are to dumb do make their site secure and there are a lot of people there. Any other type of site with the same characteristics is equally a target, the connection to "dating" is pure coincidence.
Anything good ... (Score:3, Insightful)
Anything good can also be used for bad. If we don't do things because it could end up being use for bad then we don't do anything.