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Hackers Devise More-And-More Sophisticated Attacks
06/14/2010
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SPAMfighter News - June 14, 2010
Stefan Tanase, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Labs, during a lecture at the Security Analyst Summit of Kaspersky Labs in Cyprus said that cyber assaults based on social engineering tactics were mostly successful. The reason for their success is that phishing assaults operators employed online tricks that made their achievement rate better, as reported by SCMagazineUK on June 4, 2010.
The attendees of the conference asked whether phishing e-mails with specific languages were a problem, the researcher remarked that they represented an issue in the end-user transaction domain. According to him, since '419 scam' assaults tended to use phishing e-mails with specific languages, there were greater chances that recipients would open them.
Tanase is certain that the current phishing assaults are increasingly money driven rather than mischief.
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