Know your Enemy: Phishing

By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 05/19/05

Know your Enemy: Phishing is a new paper on the techniques used by phishers, as compiled by he Honeynet Project & Research Alliance:

... Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and we also present our observations on network scanning techniques and how compromised machines are used to spread phishing emails and other spam. ...

Via Bruce Schneier and added to our phishing resources page.

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