In a rather ironic twist on traditional phishing attacks, customers of American Express are being targeted by a campaign promising them an identity theft and phishing prevention tool. The phishing emails offer SafeKey use as bait. This is a legitimate program that Amex offers its customers as an additional layer of security to guard against ID theft and phishing. The scam uncovered by Comodo Labs plays on deep-seated identity theft concerns to actually perpetrate large scale identity theft. The hackers have taken a great deal of care in the design of the messages employed to make them look, feel and… [Continue Reading]