Three Ways Phishers Are Hooking You
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This story by Bill Brenner of Search Security.com details some ways that phishera are compromising corporate servers so they can lure victims - and has some basic techniques administrators can follow to prevent them.
Most people think of phishing as authentic-looking, but bogus e-mails designed to trick them out of their bank account numbers. But recent research by the Honeynet Project & Research Alliance shows it’s much more complicated - and scarier - than that.
Phishers are using malicious Web servers, port redirection and botnets with stunning success to hook users, the alliance warned in a new report. Their efforts are far more elaborate and organized than first thought, and in many cases they’re coordinating with other phishing groups and mixing methods.
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