You can add another blunder to the already long list of Equifax's missteps: they've been pointing customers to
a fake phishing site.
Then it bungled its response, initially forcing those affected to sign a legal document prohibiting them from joining a class - action suit, then inadvertently directing potential victims to
a fake phishing site which proceeded to steal yet more information.
It may take you to
a fake phishing site disguised to look as your bank's site, but with a subtly different URL.
Not exact matches
Phishing sites are essentially
fake, imitation websites designed to look identical to the real thing.
«By looking at these three measures together, we were able to show that users do not spend enough time analyzing key
phishing indicators, and often fail at detecting
phishing attacks even when they are mentally engaged in the task and subconsciously processing real
sites differently from
fake sites,» said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., the director of the Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) lab and associate professor of computer and information sciences at UAB.
A new
phishing scam is using the classified advertising Web
site Craigslist to lure potential buyers to a
fake version of the online auction
site eBay.
I was on the
site for less than a few hours and was immediately being hit with
fake profile contacts and
phishing scams.
POSSIBLE
PHISHING ATTACK - ONLINE DATING WEBSITE - PRETENDING TO BE EHARMONY - SPOOFED LINKS ATTENTION: I've been getting
fake eHarmony emails eHarmony 100 % free online dating
site.
In the lead up to holiday season, where 22 per cent of singles feel the loneliest, new research from online dating
site eHarmony has revealed the POSSIBLE
PHISHING ATTACK - ONLINE DATING WEBSITE - PRETENDING TO BE EHARMONY - SPOOFED LINKS ATTENTION: I've been getting
fake eHarmony emails
Such services also work to prevent
phishing, in which a hacker can redirect visitors of your author website to a
fake duplicate and lead unwary link - clickers to unsafe, spyware - ridden ad
sites.
Well - done
phishing sites can look exactly like a real Google or bank login page, and have tricked many high profile people into typing their passwords into these
fake sites.
One of the most common ways to attack users is
phishing: enticing the user into entering their password into a
fake version of a web
site that they trust.
For example, a phisher might sent out spam emails pretending to be from Bank of America asking you to click a link, visit a
fake Bank of America website (a
phishing site), and enter your banking details.
From your reports, we take actions such as report
phishing sites to search engines, mark
fake social media accounts as malicious on respective platforms, and submit known malicious public keys to exchanges and blockchain explorers.
A recent slew of
phishing sites and advertising has been tricking users into signing up for
fake Mt.Gox scam
sites.
So, even if a user clicks on a
phishing link or gets caught on a
fake site, Clef still protects the user and their account.