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Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-phace-of-phishing dept.

UnderAttack writes to tell us the Washington Post SecurityFix blog has an interesting article about a new and rather sophisticated phishing scheme. The email not only used the first few digits of the users card number to look more plausible (even though the first part of the number is the same for all cards), but it also used a valid SSL certificate for its domain name."

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  1. Re:un-possible! by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 0, Troll



    you're telling me, i'm still trying to figure out how people are not better educated than this...

    It was a government conspiracy