Taiwan: Spear Phishers Target Gmail Users


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Oct29, 2009

Taiwan: Spear Phishers Target Gmail Users

by Sarah Calaunan (Fraud Analyst)

Trend Micro threat analysts found several phishing sites registered in China that target specific people or companies. The said email can customize phishing URLs using the names of intended recipients via a technique called "spear phishing."

Spear phishing has been used by cybercriminals before in attacks that involved specific targets. In the previous post, "So Is It Twitter or Facebook?," for instance, cybercriminals exploited Twitter's direct message function to inform users that their pictures were seen on another website, the link to which is embedded in the same message. The link led to a bogus Facebook page from which user credentials are then stolen.

More details & screenshots – TrendLabs - http://blog.trendmicro.com/

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