or accounts is more difficult when using two-factor authentication.Tokens protect against several types of attacks, including forms of phishing and spyware, but they are not a cure
CS142 Lecture Notes - Phishing Attack. Phishing. 0 Basic idea: 0 Get unsuspecting users to visit an evil Web site. 0 Convince them that the evil Web site is actually a legitimate site (such as a bank or PayPal). 0 Trick the user into disclosing personal information (password, credit card number, etc.) 0 Use the personal
Abstract. A phishing attack is a method of tricking users into unknowingly providing personal and financial information or sending funds to attackers. The most common phishing attacks use some form of electronic messaging such as email to provide a link to what appears to be a legitimate site but is actually a malicious site
PDF documents, which supports scripting and fillable forms, are also used for phishing. 3.1 Email Spoofing. A spoofed email is one that claims to be originating from one source when it was actually sent from another [19]. Email spoofing is a common phishing technique in which a phisher sends spoofed emails, with the
6 Jan 2017 Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin said that the email has the subject line “Assessment document" and the body contains a single PDF attachment
5 Jan 2017 Security experts are warning of an active phishing campaign that utilizes PDF attachments in a novel ploy to harvest email credentials from victims.
15 Nov 2017 Phishing emails are written so that they appear to come from a person at a legitimate company and contain a PDF attachment asking you to review important information such as invoices or other “important information."
15 Mar 2017 Unlike in other spam campaigns, the PDF attachments we are seeing in these phishing attacks do not contain malware or exploit code. Instead, they rely on social engineering to lead you on to phishing pages, where you are then asked to divulge sensitive information. One example of the fraudulent PDF
26 Jan 2017 The Gmail phishing attack is reportedly so effective that it tricks even technical users, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. We're seeing similarly simple but clever social engineering tactics using PDF attachments. These deceitful PDF attachments are being used in email phishing attacks that attempt to
27 Jan 2017 On the heels of a disturbingly convincing Gmail phishing scam, Microsoft is warning email users of other crafty schemes, this time involving PDF attachments. PDF, short for the Portable Document Format pioneered by Adobe, is a popular method of distributing content online. Cyber-attackers are banking on

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