Report: Phishing attacks on the rise

Report: Phishing attacks on the rise
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-03-19

Despite a handful of successful criminal prosecutions and an increase in public awareness, February saw a marked increase in the number of new variations of the spam-borne swindle called "phishing," according to a report from an industry group released Friday.

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Report: Phishing attacks on the rise 2004-03-22
Metzelplik

This article doesn't talk about the techniques used by the spammers. An email that came out a little while ago has a link that sends the victim to a server on the web that uses JAVA to turn the machine into a PROXY like system. The other end of the proxy is the financial instituion's website. The...

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Report: Phishing attacks on the rise 2004-03-24
Anonymous

Once a Phishing site is detected what is the best process to get it closed down?

Our experience is that it is dependent on the ISP hosting the site, the country in which the site is regietered and the law enforcement agency involved.

It takes a significant amount of time and meantime the Phish...

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