Phishers Out in Force to Con Yahoo and Dropbox Users

aztony

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Oct 15, 2013
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Security experts are warning of two major new phishing campaigns directed at Dropbox and Yahoo users, designed to compromise email accounts and enable follow-up scams. The Yahoo Mail attacks were first discovered around a month ago – arriving in the form of a simple phishing email claiming the victim has to click on a link to restore recently expired email access.

The ‘Update Now’ link leads to a spoofed Yahoo log-in page designed to harvest these credentials, according to Symantec. However, things then get more interesting, the AV giant explained:
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/phishers-out-in-force-con-yahoo/
 

comfortablynumb15

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May 11, 2015
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This sort of thing drives me nuts because it's so easily avoided, yet people still get taken. No matter how sophisticated these cons get, they still rely on people not thinking for a moment.
 
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