Thursday, December 17, 2015

The phishing game new tactics

I recently came across a very well formatted phishing email with a valid SSL certificate and close enough domain name to PayPal - paysnal.com that caught my attention.  The techniques are age old as in the real world of fishing - the lure, the distraction and the impersonation.  Like in the real world of fishing - what a fish considers a day-to-day normal business (like fish eating worms), can be a successful trap (death for the fish).  Let me explore this to show how the story unfolded