Know your Enemy:
Phishing

In this side note we provide an overview of the source IP addresses of potential victims in the redirection phishing attack described in phishing technique two. The data below was collected with the help of the compromised German honeypot and modified redir software. Over a period of about 36 hours we observed 721 redirections of inbound HTTP requests to the honeypot, presumably recipients of a spam phishing email who were tricked into accessing the redirected content by clicking on the link provided. All are potential victims of the phishing attack, but as no personal data was captured we we cannot make an educated guess how many people actually entered sensitive information into the HTML form on the Chinese phishing web site.

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