Stephen Pritchard reports:
A new way of carrying out phishing attacks is being adopted by criminal groups – and it could make threat actors virtually undetectable, security researchers warn.
The technique involves using ‘reverse tunnel’ services and URL shorteners to launch large-scale phishing attacks. What’s more, the groups using these techniques leave no trace.
Instead, threat actors can use their local machines to host phishing pages on random URLs. These can help evade detection by URL scanning services. The groups can then further mask their identities using URL shortener services.
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