A curious phishing attempt • Hacker News Board

Re: A curious phishing attempt

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Post by computator » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

Bunq or any financial services company is in a perfect position to trace these criminals. If they would create some actual Bunq login accounts and actual Bunq ATM card numbers, with zero balance or low $5 balance, they could feed some of these account numbers to the malware site before shutting it down, and later monitor where those account numbers end up getting used.

Does anyone know if banks, MasterCard, Visa, etc., are already doing this? It seems obvious and straightforward, but maybe banks are averse to giving out actual credentials (no matter how limited the account) in case something goes wrong.

Re: A curious phishing attempt

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Post by burnte » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

monkpit wrote: post #7

chadlavi wrote: post #6

why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place

Why would someone call “InPrivate” browsing mode a “new feature of edge” when it’s built in to chromium?

Well, to word it like that says it's new to edge, not a new feature worldwide. When Apple came out with the Apple Pencil fro iPads, it wasn't the first stylus, but it was new for Apple.

Re: A curious phishing attempt

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Post by mintplant » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

burnte wrote: post #12

monkpit wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would someone call “InPrivate” browsing mode a “new feature of edge” when it’s built in to chromium?

Well, to word it like that says it's new to edge, not a new feature worldwide. When Apple came out with the Apple Pencil fro iPads, it wasn't the first stylus, but it was new for Apple.

It's not new to Edge. The branding carries over from the original Edge's InPrivate mode.

Re: A curious phishing attempt

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Post by imglorp » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

godot wrote: post #9

chadlavi wrote: post #6

why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place

If you hover over links on the post, you would notice that the author recently changed jobs, from Google to Microsoft. It seems reasonable for a Microsoft employee to use Bing as primary search ;) Anyhow, I'm disappointed that Bing also has the practice of styling ads the same was search results, as Google has normalized.

They're also doing user telemetry at any cost, also led by google. MS is not a software company any more.

Re: A curious phishing attempt

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Post by De_Delph » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

godot wrote: post #9

chadlavi wrote: post #6

why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place

If you hover over links on the post, you would notice that the author recently changed jobs, from Google to Microsoft. It seems reasonable for a Microsoft employee to use Bing as primary search ;) Anyhow, I'm disappointed that Bing also has the practice of styling ads the same was search results, as Google has normalized.

Actually I never been employed by any of them, I referred to switching because as a lifelong Google user I was now switching to MS for online services. I will clarify that in the post!