Phishers set to Visa

Following last week phishing attacks on Mastercard owners the world faced a new wave of scams targeted Visa credit card owners. The aim of phishers is to get as much information on credit card details as it possible. They send messages offering imitated 'Verified by Visa' service that in reality is aimed to make online transactions safe and secure.

This attack wasn't a surprise as for the company as they were expecting it. "We expected to see similar attempts targeting Visa's counterpart service, Verified by Visa. Today, we received one of the first samples," Savio Lau said.

But unlike Mastercard attacks phishing attacks on Visa are not very good. It is plain and simple. The pattern is as follows: potential victim receives an e-mail with suggestion to join Verified by Visa service. Message also contains a link to some rogue website on which the victim is asked to provide some personal and card details.  

Having entered the site user can see a field requiring entering security key. In case if the user is not sure in his security key he may click on a link provided there. The link will take one to Yahoo security key web page that reads: "Your security key... must not match your Yahoo ID".

Even if the user is not suspicious he may ask about the relation of yahoo IDs and Verified by Visa service

Aynny, reporter of Ecommerce Journal