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SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 22, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection
-- today announced that its FortiGate™ integrated security appliances, FortiMail™ Secure Messaging Systems and FortiClient™ Host Security software protect against the latest Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish. Fortinet received the first sample of this new Phishing scam in Israel and detected 46,902 samples thus far, including 12,000 samples of this new Phishing attempt within two hours of releasing the detection package.
This new Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish, is sent to target email addresses in an attempt to fool and convince users to sign onto a Web page using their eBay login information. The Web page is not affiliated with eBay and may track the user's login information in order to steal data. Identity theft, credit card fraud and financial loss are very real possibilities should the attack yield the requested information. Fortinet currently rates this Phishing scam as a "Level Two" threat with the potential of becoming a "Level Three" threat if detected samples surpass 100,000 worldwide.
Email subjects for the new Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish, include:
- Customer Service: Your Account In eBay Inc
- EBAY - URGENT SECURITY NOTICE
- EBAY EMAIL VERIFICATION
- EBAY INC - URGENT SECURITY NOTIFICATION
- EBAY: URGENT SECURITY NOTICE
- EBAY: URGENT SECURITY NOTIFICATION
- Protect your eBay Inc account
- URGENT NOTIFICATION FROM EBAY BILLING DEPARTMENT
- eBay Inc - confirm your details to avoid service cancellation
- eBay Official Update
- eBay: please confirm your banking details
Automatic Updates: FortiGuard Distribution Network
All FortiGate systems in production worldwide are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Distribution Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest threats around the clock and around the world. To protect customers against HTML/Ebay-phish, Fortinet published antivirus database 4.811 for its thousands of FortiGate systems within two hours of receiving the first virus sample. With this latest antivirus database update, Fortinet's FortiGate systems block the phishing scam, and other types of threats, at the gateway before it enters customers' networks.
For further information on HTML/Ebay-phish, please visit Fortinet's virus encyclopedia at:
http://www.fortinet.com/VirusEncyclopedia/search/encyclopediaSearch.do?method=viewVirusDetailsInfoDirectly&fid=52775
For more information on Fortinet's FortiGuard Distribution Network please visit:
http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/av.html
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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