Friday, May 20, 2011

Phishing Site Discovered on Sony Server

It's not over...



Sony Phish
Oh, Sony. Capping off a week that saw Sony disable logins across some of its PlayStation Network properties thanks to a password exploit, F-Secure identified a phishing site running on one of Sony's servers.
Today's incident, however, "has nothing to do with the Sony PSN hack," F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen wrote in a blog post.
"We know you're not supposed to kick somebody when they're already down ... but we just found a live phishing site running on one of Sony's servers," Hypponen said. "Basically this means that Sony has been hacked, again. Although in this case the server is probably not very important."
Hypponen posted screen shots of the official homepage of Sony Thailand, as well as a phishing site using the URL hdworld.sony.co.th (above), which appears to target an Italian credit card company.     Read More