Going Undercover in the Slimy World of Phishing
eWeek takes us behind the scenes in the world of phishing.
eWeek takes us behind the scenes in the world of phishing.
The research scientist for Cloudmark recently spent weeks monitoring the phishing community's chat rooms and forums, learned the lingo, earned some trust, and even received kits from the fraudsters who set up scam pages that steal victims' personal data. Then he went and hurt the criminals' feelings after not coming through on the spam delivery.
