{"id":438,"date":"2013-09-24T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-12-09T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:47:27","slug":"phishing-attacks-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2013\/09\/24\/phishing-attacks-august-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Attacks August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC World summarized a Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s study that noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article may be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2049287\/apple-is-a-tempting-phishing-target-for-scammers.html#tk.rss_all\" title=\"Phishing targets for scammers\" target=\"_blank\">www.pcworld.com\/article\/2049287\/apple-is-a-tempting-phishing-target-for-scammers.html#tk.rss_all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of particular note was the resurgence of some old malware which infects your email contact list. Phishing attacks continued as well &#8212; email scams purportedly from a company which you have an account with, claiming that your account requires action by clicking on a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World summarized a Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s study that noted: Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts. This article may be viewed at: www.pcworld.com\/article\/2049287\/apple-is-a-tempting-phishing-target-for-scammers.html#tk.rss_all Of particular note was the resurgence of some old malware which infects your email contact list. Phishing attacks continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[30,22,23,33],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-news","tag-mac","tag-malware","tag-phishing","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}