{"id":516,"date":"2011-10-10T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/phishing-attacks-getting-more-efficient-for-the-bad-guys\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:49:45","slug":"phishing-attacks-getting-more-efficient-for-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/phishing-attacks-getting-more-efficient-for-the-bad-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing attacks getting more efficient for the bad guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folks, please, please, please be very careful of what you click on and what financial information you provide. Especially in response to an ‘alerting’ email!
There are a great number of ‘phishing’ attacks occurring again and they are getting even more sophisticated. Many almost look and sound legitimate. I have written previously on some of this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But as a reminder, if you get an email or text telling you you must login to a financial (or any other for that matter) site via a link in an email DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINK AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DON’T ENTER ANY INFORMATION IF YOU DO!!
If you must visit a bank, credit card or online vendors site for ‘verification’ or what ever do so through the ‘Front Door’. By that I mean open a brand new Web Browser window and log in to ‘their site’ and proceed from there. i.e. https:\/\/wellsfargo.com etc.<\/p>\n

If you click on many of these links a few things are likely to happen. 1st you will probably be silently infected by a Trojan\/backdoor application and 2nd you will probably be brought to a ‘bogus’ site that looks very much like the legitimate site. You will be prompted to enter in financial and\/or information such as account\/card numbers passwords and other verification. The MOMENT you do you can be assured that your account will be compromised! Sometimes in as little as a few minutes your account can be emptied!<\/p>\n

Here is an example of one of the hundreds of emails that have been hitting my email server this weekend. You can see that it almost looks legitimate; the wording is sufficiently scary and authoritative and there is a ‘real logo’. But the link in the email is to a phishing site. AND the email address on the ‘from’ is not correct.<\/p>\n

\"Security\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This looks very \u2018scary\u2019 and it is \u2013 but for the reason that you WILL<\/u><\/strong><\/em> be screwed, not that you are yet.<\/p>\n

Please use some caution in the digital world. You would not give a perfect stranger your bank card and pin but some will do just that in cyberspace.<\/p>\n

Be safe folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Folks, please, please, please be very careful of what you click on and what financial information you provide. Especially in response to an ‘alerting’ email! There are a great number of ‘phishing’ attacks occurring again and they are getting even more sophisticated. Many almost look and sound legitimate. I have written previously on some of … Continue reading “Phishing attacks getting more efficient for the bad guys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,52,195,21,151,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-protection","category-maleware","category-phishing","category-security","category-trojan","category-virus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t