It seems that every day, new script kiddies discover the likes of the Social Engineering Toolkit or Metasploit and launch a new wave of phishing attacks. Unfortunately it seems that this time the attackers are too lazy to even try. Today’s email – screenshot on the right – is a reasonably straight forward phishing attempt. The […]
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Finphishing – 8 steps to criminal profits
FinPhishing – or financial spear phishing – is a form of social engineering attack which is becoming massively profitable for the criminal enterprises involved. Unfortunately for the victims it is very cheap to deploy and nearly always gets past technological security controls such as spam filtering and malware detection. As a result of this, businesses […]
Twitter – Possible social engineering attack
This evening I managed to end up getting my personal twitter account hijacked and malicious users were able to send out direct messages before I got at least some element of control back. First off, I want to apologise to anyone who got a strange DM from me, telling them to click on a suspicious […]