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When I typed my phone number in the box on "Musk" "investment" website my landline rang instantly after entering the last digit. It was definitely an onkeydown event. A friendly fast talking man in an extremely busy sounding (fake) call center asked me if I was $name_I_put_in_the_form. The voices in the background were people further down the sign up process. I said yes, then asked how he got my number. He said I jus…
It sounds like you confuse easily?
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They shut them down pretty much right away, but they pop back up right away too. And they usually viewbot to the top of the front page. Seems like a fairly simple thing to solve though, limit ages of accounts needed to be featured etc
I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the viewbots are using the same pool of IP addresses. Blocking VPNs, VPSes, tor, and ranges with large amounts of bans would probably help. On the other hand, twitch keeps firing employees, so they probably just ban the stream account every 20 minutes because they don't have the manpower.
I would be very surprised if they are not using a new, clean residential IP on a US ISP for each and every account.
The section “Recognizing AI phishing attempts” is mournfully short, but there’s some companies out there like Jericho Security ( https://www.jerichosecurity.com ) that are working on countermeasures, at least for enterprises.
I’m skeptical we can develop effective ones, due to the fact that we have been unable to solve non-AI phishing problems but I welcome their attempt.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
I adore my Yubikey.
I expect that with AI, we'll be less able to rely on the heuristic of bad grammar to easily detect phishing. That one flaw gave the phishers away so often, and made it so obvious ...
It goes the other way now, overly verbose responses and perfect grammar sets off the warning bells.
I expect that with AI, we'll be less able to rely on the heuristic of bad grammar to easily detect phishing. That one flaw gave the phishers away so often, and made it so obvious ...
The bad grammar is on purpose. I know of two possible reasons: * Bayesian poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning * Weeding out poor mark candidates https://josephsteinberg.com/why-scammers-make-spelling-and-g...
Always has been.
Tbh the browser/email client makers are complicit in these phishing attempts for hiding the URLs and the actual email addresses.
Put them back!
> Is it your fate now to do due diligence on every email you receive? Always has been. Tbh the browser/email client makers are complicit in these phishing attempts for hiding the URLs and the actual email addresses. Put them back!