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BY DAVID HARLEY
November 5, 2012

There are things almost as certain as death and taxes: crime is one of them. And there are certain events that always seem to trigger certain kinds of cybercrime. One is disaster, natural or man-made. So my colleague Urban Schrott has called attention to the likelihood of scams piggybacking the serious impact of ‘Superstorm’ Sandy on the East Coast of the US, and the FTC has some good advice on spotting charity scams. And this type of scam has been addressed in the Threatblog quite a lot before, so I won’t go belabour the point about Sandy-related 419s, phishing attacks, Blackhat SEO, and even out-and-out hoaxes with no apparent cash motive. This graphic, featured in Urban’s blog, is actually a doctored still from the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, and the Huffington Post noted last week that the number of sites registered with names potentially associated with the hurricane had already reached 1,100.

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