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Ethical Phishing to Evaluate Phishing Awareness

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2008-05-06 17:26:25 by HASH0x8af66c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phisher's web interface to spamming out phishing emails, so I guess the bad guys can in fact learn from the good guys standardizing approach and metrics mentality applied For the time being, Rock Phish represents the most efficiency centered phishing approach , with a single IP hosting numerous domains, each of those hosting over ten...
 
Tags: awareness, interface, click web interface, employees awareness, web interface, employees, susceptible employees, phisher, susceptible
 
 
 
 
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DIY Phishing Kits Introducing New Features

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2008-05-15 14:11:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers, as the novice market entrants would be the ones making the headlines The DIY phishing kits trend started emerging around August, 2007 , with the distribution of a simple kit (screenshots included), whose objective was to make it easy for a phisher already possessing the phishing page, to enter a URL where all the data would be...
 
Tags: features, kits, image grabber features, kits trend, diy, core features, proprietary kits, kit, simple kit
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...phishers can steal money out of the victims' accounts or take their identities. To protect our users against phishing, we publish a blacklist of known phishing sites. This blacklist is the basis for the anti-phishing features in the latest versions of Firefox and Google Desktop. Although blacklists are necessarily a step behind as phishers...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers scamming the phishers, facts that are shifting the emphasis on the segmentation, malicious economies of scale concept, the spamming process of phishing emails, and of course, the arms race between the targeted brands and the phishers in terms of catching up with each other's activities In the very same way, malware authors apply...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Skype Phishing Pages Serving Exploits and Malware

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2008-05-09 07:00:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...phishers, spammers and malware authors for the last two years, this particular phishing campaign looks like a lone gunman operation Original message : " Dear valued skype member: It has come to our attention that your skype account informations needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the...
 
Tags: skype account informations, account informations, account, skype, account information, malware, informations, original login page, result
 
 
 
 
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AOL phisher gets seven year sentence

2008-08-13 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A West Haven, Connecticut, man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme
 
Tags: west, scheme, prison, connecticut
 
 
 
 
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AOL phisher gets seven-year sentence

2008-08-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A West Haven, Conn., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period
 
Tags: aol users, four-year period, conn, west, scheme, prison
 
 
 
 
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Phish Page Steals Your Details, Then Logs You In

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2008-08-22 14:15:31 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Phisher Click to Enlarge From the point where I decided to login to Habbo Hotel, to the point where I'm actually logged into the site there is no break in the usual procedure and I have absolutely no indication I've just been phished. If this kind of devious tactic is employed for banking phishes, it'll make it all the more crucial that...
 
Tags: phish, phish page steals, phish page, visit phish page, page, phish page takes, details, login details, login
 
 
 
 
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Call out a phisher, get attacked by malware

2008-08-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
If you're the target of a phishing attack, one thing you probably shouldn't do is backtalk, said Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks. Otherwise, you may be the target of a follow-up attack
 
Tags: attack, follow-up attack, malware research, target, joe stewart, secureworks, director, backtalk