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Flash Phishing Saturday, 31 January 2009 04:06 Phishers always try to come up with new tricks to bypass phishing toolbars. So, it?s not really surprising that weve now seen several phishing websites that are using Flash-based content instead of normal HTML. The main objective for the use of Flash-based content is to avoid phishing detection by toolbars that analyze page content. Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Online-Fraud/Flash-Phishing/ba-p/384321

Its Not So Much Social Networking as it is Social Engineering Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:34 I keep getting asked about what malware Symantec has seen that?s been written to target social networks. While there have certainly been a few such as Koobface, people are asking the wrong question. If the social network sites are paying attention, and to their credit they usually are, these threats can be squashed pretty quickly. Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Online-Fraud/It-s-Not-So-Much-Social-Networking-as-it-is-Social-Engineering/ba-p/383341   How Phishes Reach the Basket Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:26 My previous blog post highlighted both what a phishing kit is and what functionalities it usually provides to a fraudster who uses it throughout the duration of the social engineering attack known as phishing. I want now to focus my attention on the delivery methods used by this piece of software Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Online-Fraud/How-Phishes-Reach-the-Basket/ba-p/378511   Not-For-Profit Phishing Wednesday, 07 January 2009 19:16 A recent phishing scheme that targets users of Twitter (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/gone-phishing.html) may be related to a string of Web attacks against several high-profile celebrities and no doubt many other users. Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Online-Fraud/Not-For-Profit-Phishing/ba-p/376892   Phishing Attacks Utilizing Port Numbers Wednesday, 24 December 2008 05:00 There are varying types of technologies used by online attackers these days. There are old tricks and of course new ones, but it is the newer ones that make it even more difficult to handle the dilemmas faced in the world of Internet security. One of the trends of attack that was noticed a little while ago was an attack based on a website?s ?port number.? Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Online-Fraud/Phishing-Attacks-Utilizing-Port-Numbers/ba-p/374610

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