While most Internet users are familiar with the term phishing and its dangerous effects, security researchers are recording a considerable increase in two related malicious schemes, vishing and smishing.
Vishing is a variant of phishing, its name coming from a combination between the words voice and phishing, report... |
23 December 2011
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Telstra, the largest telecommunications provider in Australia, is warning its customers from North Queensland about vishing attacks.Vishing (voice + phishing) refers to phone scams that are similar to traditional phishing attacks, in the sense that scammers use deceive users into exposing sensitive information.Visher... |
18 April 2011
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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns consumers about phone scams that try to scare them into paying fines in order to avoid imprisonment for visiting the WikiLeaks website.People receive automated phone calls with prerecorded messages, which claim their IP address was caught visiting the WikiLeaks website.They are ... |
20 January 2011
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Overwhelmed by the number of attacks against PBX systems at the managed service provider where he works, a security engineer has launched a project to gather and and list offending IP addresses involved in VoIP abuse."Throughout the course of the day, I got tired of seeing VoIP based brute force attempts that I decid... |
30 September 2010
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According to security researchers from Cisco, vishing attacks are increasingly more common and complex. Recent incidents involve fake mass alerts sent via SMS, which instruct residents of certain areas to call a rogue 800 number and provide their financial information. One of the highlights of Cisco's 2009 Midy... |
14 July 2009
06:54 GMT |
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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning about a vulnerability in the Asterisk open source telephony engine that can supposedly allow attackers to compromise legit VoIP servers and perform thousands of fake phone calls per hour. Digium, the company behind Asterisk, says the warning is... |
8 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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People's money and their bank accounts represent the most important target for numerous hackers/attackers out there, so most attempts aim to steal these sensitive details. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported a few days ago that a new type of attack called "vishing" continues to rise and to threate... |
22 January 2008
15:26 GMT |
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