Ed Skoudis
06.13.2006
It’s happened three times in the past six months. Due to “irregularities” on my credit card account, I’ve received voice mails asking me to call my bank at a telephone number mentioned in the voice mails. Do I call that number? Not with the rise of phone phishing. As users grow wiser about traditional email-based phishing scams, the bad guys add nasty new twists, the latest being phone phishing. These techniques, which borrow ideas from traditional phishing, phone-based social engineering and the emerging widespread deployment of low-cost VoIP, take two forms. Enterprises that help their users cope with phone phishing now will be better prepared to defend themselves when the attacks evolve into more serious phone-based spear phishing attacks.
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