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Trends: From Phishing to “Man-in-the-Middle” Phishing

30

Sep

2011

Here’s how phishing methods are evolving based on our recent investigations. E-mail Phishing This message claims to be from Blizzard Entertainment. It attempts to phish the recipient by promising access to a game that’s currently under development. The language and grammar usage is good but not perfect. Somewhat oddly — the e-mail address that’s spoofed […]

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Phishing the night away

16

Sep

2011

Today I identified several phishing emails targeting the Royal Bank of Canada’s customers: The above phish is the classic trick of sending you to a fake banking site and have you type your personal information (social engineering). On the opposite, the following phish aims at having you run a file (social engineering + malware infection): […]

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Bad guys want your Twitter passwords – don’t be phished via a DM attack!

06

Sep

2011

We continue to see Twitter users being targeted by criminal campaigns designed to phish passwords for the site. The problem is that often they are disguised as direct messages (DMs in Twitter parlance) from your online friends. The latest attack comes in the form of a DM from one of your Twitter acquaintances: when did […]

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