A person who uses e-mail to fraudulently obtain valid data from a user. Pronounced "fisher." See phishing.
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- Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak
- The recently leaked accounting data of thousands of Hotmail users -- Gmail has also been affected -- obtained through what appears to be a badly executed phishing campaign, once again puts the spotlight on the how bad password management practices remain an inseparable part of the user-friendly ecosystem. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic
- Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Ex-botnet master hired by TelstraClear
- Remember Owen Thor Walker AKILL that got busted in the FBI's "Bot Roast" investigation for operating a 1.3 million hosts botnet in 2007, and even once considered to be offered a job as a cybercrime fighter by detectives impressed by his mediocre botnet management skills? Well, it...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!
- Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!Why easy obvioussolution are never used.Cut the crooked ISPs from the net until they have cleaned they act. but since they are clearly criminal in nature a instant life time ban will doif an ISP host a malicious website/file and do not remove it right away after...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability
- Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown
- Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a-twitter about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influentialâ€"a repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Phishers apply quality assurance, start validating credit card numbers
- With the exact number of end users interacting with phishing emails by submitting bogus data still unknown, phishers are on the other hand continuing to apply basic quality assurance processes ensuring that they will be collecting only validated credit card details, and limiting the opportunity for researchers and end users...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons
- Conventional wisdom is that phishing represents easy money. This paper examines the economics that underly the phenomenon, and very different picture. Phishing is a classic example of tragedy of commons, where there is open access to a resource that has limited ability to regenerate. Since each phisher in dependently seeks...
- White papers 2008-09-25
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal DownloadsBlackmailThis is blackmail by the richest companies in the world.RICH STEALING AGAIN FROM THE POOR.No doubt they won't use it against Third world countries where people can't afford to eat, or WILL THEY?Personally I like to listen to tracks for week or two before...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers
- Phishers increasingly scamming other phishersPhisher on Phisher crime!FSB says:"Good PLAN!"http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comlet the scum finish each other off!
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- CSRF vulnerability allows Twitter 'follow' abuse
- Last week, TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid wrote about an obvious Twitter vulnerability that allowed a user called "johng77536" to game the popular micro-blogging service to add thousands of followers subscribers in a short period of time. The "johng77536" account has since been disabled but a security researcher tracking...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
- Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated
- Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- DIY phishing kits introducing new features
- What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Using mail for phishing
- The standard phishing scams still catch enough people to justify the small costs and low risks involved - but there's a better way. From the bad guy's perspective traditional phishing has costs and benefits. On the cost side there's a few hundred dollars to get a million...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
- This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a registrar's customer a registrant regarding a domain name related matter. Examples of expected correspondence include a notice of pending expiration of...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Using mail for phishing
- Using mail for phishingSnailmail phishing already happening - legally!Murph said: [i]"As it turned out the letter we got was naive but genuine - but your next one may not be because sooner or later some bad guy is going to do this - and take at least a few hundred...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Anti-Phishing: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Safeguard Information Assets With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
- Off late cybercriminals are motivated by financial gain, and their main vector of attack has become the Web. One of the techniques they use is Phishing (pronounced "Fishing"), which relates to Web attacks aimed at fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as...
- White papers 2008-04-01
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