Sentences with phrase «visit phishing sites»

For example, a not insignificant number of people were scammed for their private keys when visiting a phishing site that claimed to allow them to check on the balance of, or get access to, their bitcoin gold.

The primary takeaway here is that anyone who visits Reddit.com (until this site is shut down) is one letter away from accidentally visiting a phishing site instead.

Not exact matches

Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio and Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp both fell victim to a «phishing attack» that urged their followers to visit a site hawking colon cleansing pills.

As discussed in our previous chapter on data breach nightmares, they have taken a variety of forms, ranging from phishing scams and social engineering attacks (e.g., using e-mail to trick attorneys to visit a malicious web site or to be lured into fraudulent collection schemes for foreign «clients») to sophisticated technical exploits that result in long term intrusions into a law firm's network to steal information.

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.

Notice the URL returned from the first ad result is www.myetherwallettribe.com (please DO NOT visit this site, as it is a phishing site), which is a slightly misspelled version of the real site URL www.myetherwallet.com

Just like any legitimate internet business, phishing sites can not generate income unless they are visited and used by real users.

The tool shows warnings to people before they visit dangerous sites or download dangerous files, but if a phishing site is created and used immediately, it poses a challenge to scanners.

The objective of phishing, one of the most widespread scams out there, is to manipulate people into visiting a rogue site camouflaged as a reputable service.