Hackers Devise New Simplified Phishing Method
Just in time for the holiday season, phishers have devised a more efficient way to get unwary online shoppers to part with their personal data and financial account information.
The new technique, dubbed Operation Huyao by the security researchers at Trend Micro who discovered it, basically lessens the time and effort needed for attackers to mount a phishing campaign while also making such attacks harder to spot.
For conventional phishing attacks to work, attackers have to typically create a realistic looking copy of the website they are targeting so that would-be victims have no idea they are actually on a malicious page.
