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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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