Groups Warn of Hurricane Rita Cyber-Scams
David Morgenstern writes in eWeek:
With Hurricane Rita looming offshore and the Gulf Coast populace heading to higher ground, several Internet watchdogs on Thursday prepared a volunteer effort to combat an expected wave of donation scams.
An international "call to arms" notice went out on the MWP (Malicious Websites and Phishing) research and operational mailing list by Gadi Evron, the CERT manager in Israel's ministry of finance.
"Over the next few days, some of us are going to process information about sites that will probably be used for Rita scams," Evron said in his posting. "Through MWP resources and ISP connections, we are going to make sure these sites are taken off-line as soon as we detect them."
Evron said that through coordination with a registrar list, the MWP group looked to terminate the domains at the registrar level.
In addition, the MWP hoped to gain the cooperation of several incident-response mechanisms to build the list of offending sites.
posted by Fergie @ 9/23/2005 11:20:00 AM
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