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Phishing - Financial Crisis and security

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 3, 2008 11:37AM PDT

Published: 2008-10-03,
Last Updated: 2008-10-03 22:18:01 UTC
by Jason Lam

The world financial crisis has lead to a lot of changes, corporations buy out one another, merging and also all sorts of structural changes are happening for the finanical companies to stay afloat. These changes are having impact on some of the online attacks as well. As reported by multiple sources, the phishers are currently leveraging the opportunity to craft persuasive phish email such as this and this. We are sure to see more of these phishing Emails.

More: http://isc.sans.org/

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