Abaca Identifies, Catches, and Quarantines Sophisticated Phishing Attack for its Customers.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- What: US Federal Court Subpoena subpoena (səpē`nə) [Lat.,=under penalty], in law, an order to a witness to appear before a court. A subpoena ad testificandum [Lat. Phish: cacd-uscourts.com On April 14, 2008, Steve Kirsch Steven Todd Kirsch invented and owns a patent on the optical mouse. After bringing multiple successful startup companies through IPO and corporate buy-out, he became a multi-millionaire. As a 12 year old student, he became fascinated with a programmable calculator. , founder and chairman of the board of Abaca Technology Corporation received an official looking subpoena via email requesting him to appear in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. in front of a grand jury. It had his name, phone number, company, and correct email address See Internet address. on it and it looked pretty legitimate. Even the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. to find out more information looked legitimate at first glance. A very sophisticated US Federal Court Subpoena phishing attack appearing to be sent from the United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. [mailto:subpoena@uscourts.com] was launched over this past weekend. Sent to CEOs only via very targeted and personalized emails. Abaca investigated the situation and after receipt of just a few of these messages all subsequent messages were quarantined by the Abaca Receiver Net service. The email is an official looking subpoena via email requesting the recipient to appear in front of a grand jury. It had may have the recipient's name, phone number, company, and correct email address included in the message. Even the URL looks legitimate at first glance. This is not a legitimate message and should not be released from the end user's quarantine. Please advise your readers to not open this message or release it from their quarantine. Its purpose is to download malware onto their computer. If the email was released for their quarantine, please have them delete it. Warn your readers to not click the link. More info about this scam: -- Castle Cops U.S. Courts@ cacd-uscourts.com E-mail scam alerts posted to the home page of both central and southern district courts: -- United States District Court - CASD CASD Centro Alti Studi Per La Difesa (Italian: Centre for High Defense Studies, Italy) CASD Chambersburg Area School District (Pennsylvania) CASD Carlisle Area School District - Welcome to CASD -- Welcome to the United States District Court Central District of California Protecting yourself from phish attacks: http://www.junkfax.org/fax/phish/uscourtsPhish.htm So how do you protect yourself? 1. Find out whether your current spam filter A software routine that deletes incoming spam or diverts it to a "junk" mailbox (see spam folder). Also called "spam blockers," spam filters are built into a user's e-mail program. has a way to detect phish like these and how it works. If you are not satisfied with what you learn, check out the spam filter from Abaca which operates using recipient reputation and can instantly and reliably detect phish such as these as soon as they are launched without any human input. 2. Never download any software from a source you do not know. 3. Look for typos and other mistakes in the email. 4. If the email asks you to go to a web site, treat it suspiciously. Check out other pages at that website. See if the images on the site belong to the site. You can also use "who is" to determine how long ago the site was created and who controls it. 5. Never trust anything in an unsolicited email from someone you do not know, no matter how legitimate it looks. When: April 14 to April 15, 2008 Phishing Attack Thwarted by Abaca Who: Abaca's Technical Support Team @ 1.877.462.2222 About Abaca Technology Corporation Abaca Technology Corporation is an innovator in email protection and messaging security. Abaca's patent-pending technology, ReceiverNet[TM], offers an advanced approach in the fight against spam--providing unprecedented levels of accuracy and guaranteeing 99 percent spam filtration. Abaca has created a portfolio of innovative products and services based upon this core technology, thereby assuring users unparalleled messaging protection from spam, as well as viruses and phishing attacks. Abaca is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about Abaca, please visit www.abaca.com. Where: To learn more - Webinar (Press Conference): To register, please click on the link below. On Wednesday, April 16, Ferris Research and Abaca Technology Corporation are holding a press conference/webinar on anti-spam. The event will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern) and will last 30 minutes. Topic - Why Today's Spam Filters Fail To register, click http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uD_2bXJWRVWqqT4pGRYUL9yQ_3d_3d Upon completion of the registration page, you will receive information for accessing the event. |
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