Over a month ago, I received a creative phishing attempt. We use a relatively popular service which is mimicked fairly well. I typically receive notification emails from it by an administrative assistant. This came from another name. That was my only real clue that made me look closer. Since, I have received almost a dozen, each pretending to be a different product.<\/p>\n
I noticed they all used different domain names for the payload link. But, they all use file.php?d=<value>\u00c2\u00a0or f.php?d=<value> to deliver the payload.<\/p>\n
Computers are smarter than I am when it comes to patterns like this, so I created an email filter to look for the file names and set it loose. If I see another phishing attempt using another script name, then I will add it to the list. But, so far, I am pleased with how well it protects me from myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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