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Phishing in French Features Teenage Celebrities

Aug

2012

Celebrities are frequently featured in phishing sites. Now, phishers have taken an interest in targeting French users by using teenage celebrities as bait. Some of the celebrities recently used as bait were the singers Jojo, Justin Bieber, and Zac Efron. The phishing sites were hosted on free Web hosting sites.In the first example, the phishing […]

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Phishers Piggyback on Indian Websites

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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