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Phishers Piggyback on Indian Websites

02

Dec

2011

Contributors: Avdhoot Patil, Ayub Khan, and Dinesh Singh Have Indian websites become a safe haven for phishers? To better understand, let’s explore how phishers create a phishing site. There are several strategies phishers frequently use: hosting their phishing site on a newly registered domain name, compromising a legitimate website and placing their phishing pages in […]

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Holiday phishing season is starting

01

Dec

2011

As in previous years, we are used to see a peak in the phishing attacks starting at the beginning of December and ending in the middle of January. If beginning of December makes perfectly sense, you might have asked yourself why middle of January. Because then people send back the presents they didn’t want to […]

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Fake Social Networking Application Promotes Maldives

12

Nov

2011

Co-Author: Avdhoot PatilWhen phishing through social media, fake applications are a key technique used by phishers to introduce new kinds of baits. In October, 2011, phishers launched a new fake application named “Maldivian App”. The phishing site was hosted on a free webhosting domain. It should be noted the legitimate site does not provide such […]

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