Security Firm Releases "Robocall Honeypot" Findings

Logethica

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Pindrop Gathers Insight Into the Robocall Scourge:

A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot. Robocalls are often associated with political and telemarketing phone campaigns, but can also be used for public-service or emergency announcements. Some robocalls use personalized audio messages to simulate an actual personal phone call. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

Over a five-month period, Pindrop Security collects and analyzes 100,000 fraudulent calls to a robocall honeypot called phoneypot....

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While most of us dread being the recipient of a robocall, Aude Marzuoli actually looks to attract and collect fraudulent calls to her robocall honeypot, aka, the phoneypot. Marzuoli, a data scientist at Pindrop Security, first provided details about the phoneypot and a sample of 100,000 calls it collected in the first half of 2016 during a session at the Black Hat USA security conference last week..

What Marzuoli didn't know before conducting the study was how much, or little, infrastructure it takes to place 100,000 calls. As it turns out, more than half (51 percent) of the calls the phoneypot recorded could be attributed to only 38 distinct telephony infrastructures. Marzuoli defines a telephony infrastructure as a grouping of phone numbers and back-end call centers operated by a phone fraud group. Pindrop's technology platform provides a voice fingerprinting capability that was used to help analyze recorded calls from the phoneypot

In conducting the phoneypot research, Marzuoli and Pindrop faced a number of challenges, including making sure that attackers didn't know which phone numbers are owned by Pindrop. The study looked at a sample of 100,000 out of 1 million calls received by Pindrop between February and June 2016...

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I voted yes :)


But I have already received a call with a real girl saying :
"hello, it seems you wanted to speak with me, call me back"...
=> Spoke very fast, without letting me the time to answer, and hang up ... :rolleyes::D
 

Logethica

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I voted yes :)


But I have already received a call with a real girl saying :
"hello, it seems you wanted to speak with me, call me back"...
=> Spoke very fast, without letting me the time to answer, and hang up ... :rolleyes::D
Aren't you the lucky one?....getting calls from REAL girls :D..
Perhaps she was a "Furry" fan with a penguin fetish,and was about to run out of call-credit.
That,my friend, was a golden opportunity squandered..:rolleyes:
 

DardiM

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Aren't you the lucky one?....getting calls from REAL girls :D..
Perhaps she was a "Furry" fan with a penguin fetish,and was about to run out of call-credit.
That,my friend, was a golden opportunity squandered..:rolleyes:
lol ! You made me thinking, now ... May be she could have been my "future ex-wife" ! :eek:
 

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