How one bank is bringing down phishers

Interesting read in CSO magazine.  Link here via beSpacific (which also has other related articles on the subject).

In this article, the bank profiled has a fine-tuned system where it gets rapid notification of a new phishing attack, and then starts the process of getting the server shutdown.

There is also a hint that the bank may use “dilution”, a polite term for something bordering on a denial of service attack — putting in fake account information below the threshold of an illegal DOS—something like what you see with PhishFighting.com.

Alex Eckelberry 

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