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Honeynet Revealing Actual Phishing Techniques

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the know-your-enemy dept.

edsonie writes "CircleID is reporting on the recent Honeynet Project, 'Know your Enemy: Phishing', aimed at discovering practical information on the practice of phishing. The study reports on a number of real world examples of phishing attacks and the typical activities performed by attackers during the full lifecycle of such incidents. The research also suggests that phishing attacks "are becoming more widespread and well organized". Also with regards to the speed of such attacks, "phishing attacks can occur very rapidly, with only limited elapsed time between the initial system intrusion and a phishing web site going online with supporting spam messages to advertise the web site, and that this speed can make such attacks hard to track and prevent." Check out the full report here presenting actual techniques and tools used by phishers."

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  1. Now the Honeynet by Psionicist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the honeynet will reveal how an actual DDoS attack work.

    Anyone have a mirror?

  2. Phishing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I move that all 13 year old Hackers now be referred to as 'Tom Sawyers' and that at any time there is a severe lack of 'Tom Sawyers' it is to be referred to as 'playing hookey'.

    1. Re:Phishing! by Ralin_JM · · Score: 5, Funny

      And when a "Tom Sawyer" steals your identity, he "gets high on you".

  3. Re:Internet Darwinism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Phishers rely on the fact that on the Internet(tm), you're a retard until proven innocent.

    So few are acquitted.

  4. Re:Was I the only one... ? by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 5, Funny

    The write-up certainly seems more threatening in the alternative context...

    Also with regards to the speed of such attacks, "fisting attacks can occur very rapidly, with only limited elapsed time between the initial intrusion and a fisting..."

    Ouch!

  5. Re:They're getting MUCH better at it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, there are plenty of stupid people - some people actually buy products from spam, or send money to Nigeria, etc etc. But the quality of the phishers is getting so good that it is hard to tell (in some cases) what is valid or what is not.

    Maybe you should just admit that you are almost too stupid to be on the Internet?