Tag: vishing

  • Vish implanted in phishing warning

    Doctored bank alert includes phony phone number. A spammed-out email has been spotted posing as a phishing warning from US credit union Kessler Federal , with some very sensible advice for customers including genuine contact details for reporting phishing attempts and assertions that no requests for login details will ever be sent by email. In…

  • US agencies report vishing, extortion, danger of hacking

    FBI name used in email attacks, CIA warns of power supply hacks. US security and law enforcement agencies were more than usually active in the computer security world last week, with the FBI alerting on increases in voice phishing attempts and a spam campaign posing as mails from the agency itself, while a CIA representative…