A look at a phishing operation
Here is a scary article about a huge phishing operation that may be responsible for half of the phishing messages on the Internet.
‘Rock Phish’ blamed for surge in phishing
No one can say for sure where Rock Phish is based, or if the group operates out of a single country. “They are sort of the Keyser Söze of phishing,” said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal researcher with Symantec’s Security Response group, referring to the secretive criminal kingpin in the 1995 film “The Usual Suspects.” “They’re doing some pretty scary things out there,” he added.
Posted: December 13th, 2006 under Security & privacy.
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